March 22, 2010

RP Worst Place to Be a Human-Rights Lawyer


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Foreign delegates at a recent gathering of lawyers in Davao City bewailed the continued killings of activists and the harassment and other threats being faced by lawyers who take the cases of the poor and those who suffer from abuses of the state. Davao Todays Cheryll D. Fiel reports.

Delegates to the IAPL last month. (Davaotoday.com photo by Cheryll F. Diel)
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