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Opposition lawmaker formally calls for president to be removed from power, accusing him of high crimes
An opposition lawmaker filed an impeachment complaint in the Philippine Congress on Thursday against President Rodrigo Duterte, calling for his removal for what he said were high crimes, betrayal of public trust and abuses of power. Tiếp tục đọc “Rodrigo Duterte impeachment papers filed in Philippine Congress”
![More than 7,000 people have been killed since Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte began his 'war on drugs' [Romeo Ranoco/Reuters]](https://i0.wp.com/www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2017/3/15/be0e98541e6d4d2797cb1d0e93b51693_18.jpg "Philippine VP: Bullets can't stop illegal drug use")
The Philippine vice president has raised an alarm about the country’s bloody crackdown on illegal drug use, saying it can’t be solved “with bullets alone”, adding Filipinos should “defy brazen incursions on their rights”.
Vice President Leni Robredo’s comments, some of her sharpest critiques so far of Rodrigo Duterte’s anti-drug campaign, are likely to antagonise the brash-talking president. Tiếp tục đọc “Philippine VP: Bullets can’t stop illegal drug use”
MANILA – A self-confessed assassin who testified to being in a “death squad” under Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will soon file a case at the International Criminal Court accusing the president of crimes against humanity, his lawyer said Tuesday.
More than 8,000 people have died since Duterte took office in June and unleashed a bloody war on drugs, a third in raids and sting operations by police who say they acted in self-defense.
Duterte and the police have denied links to the other killings, many of which rights groups say bear the same hallmarks as hundreds of suspicious deaths of criminals in Davao City during the 22 years Duterte was its mayor. Tiếp tục đọc “Philippine ‘hit man’ set to file ICC case against Duterte over crimes against humanity”
Yeonmi tells her story of life in North Korea and eventual escape, and calls for action against such human rights violators.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein. (Photo: AFP/Fabrice Coffrini)
Mr Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said the violations, “against a backdrop of severe and longstanding persecution”, amount to the “possible commission of crimes against humanity”.
He was addressing the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, where he highlighted the current major human rights issues in more than 40 countries. Tiếp tục đọc “Violence against Rohingya may amount to ‘crimes against humanity’: UN rights chief”
English: TOP 10 BUSINESS & HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES
Ngày 10/12/2016 đánh dấu ngày nhân quyền quốc tế – Viện nhân quyền và kinh doanh (IHRB – Institute for human rights and business) công bố danh sách hàng năm lần thứ 8 về 10 vấn đề đầu tiên về nhân quyền và kinh doanh cho những năm tới.
Những thách thức về nhân quyền dự kiến trong năm 2017 phản ánh sự thay đổi rõ rệt trong định hướng kinh tế, chính trị, xã hội ở cấp độ toàn cầu. Nguy cơ xói mòn của hệ thống quốc tế duy trì bảo vệ nhân quyền và các nguyên tắc của pháp luật có thể tác động đến xã hội, kinh tế và các doanh nghiệp.
Các phong trào nhân quyền đối mặt với một tương lai khó khăn trong năm 2017 và điều này là trách nhiệm của tất cả các thành viên tham gia – xã hội dân sự, các chính phủ cũng như các doanh nghiệp – để đấu tranh cho các đề người dân quan tâm và giúp nhân quyền có liên quan đến cuộc sống hàng ngày của người dân. Tiếp tục đọc “TOP 10 VẤN ĐỀ TRONG KINH DOANH & NHÂN QUYỀN THẾ GIỚI”
PR = Political Rights
CL = Civil Liberties
CL, PR, Freedom Rating Explanation: 1 = most free and 7 = least free
Aggregate Score Explanation: 0 = least free, 100 = most free
* denotes territories, as opposed to independent countries
| Freedom Status | PR | CL | Freedom Rating | Aggregate Score | Trend Arrow | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | Free | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 89 | |
| Uruguay | Free | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 98 | |
| Uzbekistan | Not Free | 7 | 7 | 7.0 | 3 | |
| Vanuatu | Free | 2 | 2 | 2.0 | 80 | |
| Venezuela | Not Free | 6 | 5 | 5.5 | 30 | |
| Vietnam | Not Free | 7 | 5 | 6.0 | 20 | |
| West Bank * | Not Free | 7 | 5 | 6.0 | 28 | |
| Western Sahara * | Not Free | 7 | 7 | 7.0 | 4 | |
| Yemen | Not Free | 7 | 6 | 6.5 | 14 | |
| Zambia | Partly Free | 4 | 4 | 4.0 | 56 | ↓ |
| Zimbabwe | Partly Free | 5 | 5 | 5.0 | 32 |
Arturo Lascanas made the allegations at the start of a nationally televised Senate inquiry on Monday after he admitted to lying in October during another Senate inquiry into alleged extrajudicial killings linked to Duterte.
Lascanas said that he had personally killed 300 people, about 200 as a member of a “Davao death squad”, with his last in 2015. He also detailed two cases where he had murdered critics of Duterte, under the instruction of the then-mayor’s bodyguard. Tiếp tục đọc “Retired officer links Duterte to almost 200 killings”
MANILA — A world of sin. A weary savior. Filipinos know the story well.
Since coming to power last summer, President Rodrigo Duterte has used biblical language to build a case for mass killings, vowing to sacrifice himself, even his son, to cleanse the nation of crime.
Conjuring a world in which evil stalks the innocent, Duterte launched a wave of violence that has claimed at least 7,000 lives. With his critics cursed and shamed, and with public support for the president running high, the establishment, including the Roman Catholic Church, has for the most part stayed quiet.
But now, more than seven months into Duterte’s tenure, with the death toll climbing night by night, the country’s Catholic hierarchy is finding its voice. In a pastoral letter published in February, church leaders denounced Duterte’s campaign as a “reign of terror” against the poor. Tiếp tục đọc “‘False prophet’: Duterte, the Catholic Church and the fight for the soul of the Philippines”
TN – 08:06 AM – 04/02/2012
Sự phân biệt, trọng nam hơn nữ xuất hiện rõ rệt ngay trong sách giáo khoa (SGK) từ bậc tiểu học.
Bà Nguyễn Thị Minh Tuyết , giảng viên Khoa Xã hội học – Học viện Báo chí truyền thông đã có một nghiên cứu khá thú vị và đáng suy nghĩ về vấn đề này.
Hình minh họa trong SGK luôn đặt khuôn mẫu về phân công lao động giữa nam và nữ khiến khó thực hiện về việc bình đẳng giới như yêu cầu của xã hội Tiếp tục đọc “Bất bình đẳng giới từ sách giáo khoa”
Journalist says crew trying to interview villager about land reform had cameras smashed and confiscated
A BBC camera crew reporting in China was attacked and later forced by police to apologise and sign a confession for trying to conduct an “illegal interview”, one of its reporters has said.
John Sudworth, a journalist with the BBC, and his team were attempting to interview a villager in rural China who claims her father was killed during a land dispute with the government. As they walked towards her house, a group of men blocked their way, pushed Sudworth and smashed and snatched the crew’s cameras. Tiếp tục đọc “BBC crew attacked in China and forced to sign confession”
Yanghee Lee (C), the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, visits the Balu Khali Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar on Feb 21, 2017. (AFP Photo)
Rights envoy Yanghee Lee made the appeal in a report submitted to the UN rights council, currently holding its main annual session in Geneva. Tiếp tục đọc “UN envoy calls for highest level Myanmar probe”
Thailand’s prisons fail to meet international standards with inmates routinely shackled, beaten, and stuffed into overcrowded cells, an international human rights group said.
Thailand also has the highest incarceration rate in Southeast Asia, jailing 425 out of every 100,000 people, according to the report by the International Federation for Human Rights, which was released on Tuesday.
More than 260,000 inmates are incarcerated in 148 prisons with an originally estimated capacity of less than 120,000, the report said, with the massive overcrowding forcing inmates to live in harsh conditions. Tiếp tục đọc “Thai prisons violate human rights, report says”
