Aquino administration’s human rights policy: Big in words, too little in action

Aquino administration’s human rights policy: Big in words, too little in action

MANILA – Early on, President Benigno Aquino III vowed to put an end to the killings and bring perpetrators to justice.

Aquino signed in November Administrative Order No. 35, creating a nine-member “Inter-agency committee on Extra-Legal Killings, Enforced Disappearances, Torture and Other Grave Violations of the Right to Life, Liberty and Security of Persons.” The so-called super body is mandated to investigate old and new cases of human rights abuses “with greater priority” to those committed under the past administration of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

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