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Philippines: 267 Unopposed Mayors Vow to Deliver 5 Million Votes for Arroyo Party

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MANILA — A total of 267 reelectionist municipal and city mayors running unopposed or virtually unopposed have vowed to work double time for a landslide Team Unity victory by delivering most of the combined 5.6 million votes in their constituencies for the senatorial ticket, as part of their commitment to help President Arroyo fulfill her “social payback” agenda of accelerating economic growth and spreading its gains among the masa.
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Philippines: Development of an Asean Human Rights Mechanism Underway

MANILA — Ambassador Alistair MacDonald, Head of Delegation of the European Commission to the Philippines, and Commission on Human Rights Chair Purificacion Quisumbing signed a memorandum of agreement on 4 May 2007 to launch a new EC-funded human rights project. The project, which will be implemented by the Philippine Commission on Human Rights together with its sister institutions in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand is intended to help pave the way for the development of an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism.
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Philippines: Escalating poll violence symptoms of a corrupted, rotten

As the campaign period is ongoing and elections will be held on May
14 there is also an increasingly alarming trend of election-related
violence. Targeted killings and ambushes of sectoral and local
candidates, either a result of fierce political rivalry or threats,
had since been taking place–a cycle of violence that has become a
subconsciously acceptable fact of life in the Philippines’
electoral process. These are among the many instances of how the
country’s system had become corrupted and rotten, in particular
on security, investigation and prosecution matters.
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Sudan: War crimes suspects must be brought before International Criminal Court

MANILA — Amnesty International welcomed today?s decision by the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for two suspected Sudanese war criminals, and urged the Sudanese government to immediately arrest the two men and hand them over to the Court in The Hague.
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Philippines: Kontra Daya slams Comelec ban on cell phones, cameras

MANILA — The anti-fraud watchdog group Kontra Daya slammed as the recently announced ban on cell phones and cameras in precincts as ?another ridiculous concoction of the discredited Comelec.? The group believes that the ban on these digital devices is meant to ensure another cover-up of massive fraud even at the precinct level.

Fr. Jose Dizon, Kontra Daya convenor branded the move as ?ridiculous and stupid? and said that it would not in any way prevent vote-buying as the Comelec claims.
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