Philippine NGO delegation conducts side event during 14th UNHRC Session

“Impunity a serious issue that characterized extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances in the Philippines” – Prof. Alston Geneva, Switzerland—"It is very important, in my experience, to try to think strategically…

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Why worry about the OB list?

(Second of three parts) First Part : A Pattern to Madness AT LEAST three people whose names and groups were on the reported military list that Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo leaked to the media in May, were killed in the last two years. The picture of Pojas, killed on May 15 last year, appeared in one of the slides.

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A doctor?s death and the dying health system

Dr. Bong Pe?era. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)

DAVAO CITY (davaotoday.com) ? While more health workers chose to go abroad to look for greener pastures, Dr. Rogelio ?Bong? Pe?era, 45, opted to stay. But on June 24 this year, his killers took his life. His brother Carlos Pe?era said he learned from the neighbors that men aboard an L200 vehicle had been asking about Dr. Pe?era a few days before he was killed. Dr. Jean Lindo, a member of the doctors? group Rx for Peace, said that amidst the continuing migration of doctors out of the country, Pe?era?s death was a big loss. Read on.

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