Despite of being applauded by the UN, the 6-man delegates of Philippine UPR Watch said that the Philippines failed to convince the 17 UN members on their good and honest report. The Philippine UPR Watch is a group of human rights advocates, victims and their families.
Casiño and Olalia were among a six-man delegation sent to Geneva by the Philippine UPR Watch, led by Karapatan special legal to UN Edre Olalia and Bayan Muna Representative Teddy Casiño, is an organization of human rights advocates, victims, and families of victims. They claimed that the presentation of the Philippine delegates were a show of lies, hypocrisy and fantasy and criticized Ermita for saying that the Philippines is a human rights defender.
The 17 countries were United States, United Kingdom, Australia, France, Canada, Norway, Netherlands, Slovenia, New Zealand, Latvia, Switzerland, Japan, Brazil, Azerbaijan, Algeria, Mexico and Korea. "This sizable number of states sends a strong message that the GRP human rights record is both in the microscope and within the radar of the international community," Olalia said. These 17 countries told the Philippine UPR Watch that the government is not doing enough in the issues of human rights, especially to the recommendations of Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions. Alston visited the country last year.
Raphael D. Torralba raph_torralba@hotmail.com
Thursday, April 17, 2008
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