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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Rampant fires in the Amazon are “poisoning the air” of the world’s biggest rainforest, causing a sharp rise in respiratory emergencies in a region already hit hard by Covid-19, said a study published Wednesday. The fires that engulfed the Brazilian Amazon last year to global outcry caused an estimated 2,195 people in the region to be hospitalized for respiratory distress driven by inhaling smoke-polluted air, found the study by […]
(Eagle News)–With Bato dela Rosa getting closer to winning a seat in the Senate, Human Rights Watch called on the International Criminal Court to investigate him for his alleged crimes when he was police chief. In a statement, Carlos Conde of the HRW’s Asia division, said although the Philippines has officially withdrawn from the ICC, it can still probe “killings during the anti-drug campaign, can still investigate alleged crimes against humanity that occurred while Dela […]
Calls on “donor governments” to “intensify pressure” on Duterte (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration has “heightened its repression” in 2018 so “donor governments should intensify pressure” on the chief executive, the Human Rights Watch said in a statement. According to the group, the government’s “murderous ‘war on drugs’” has “expanded to cities outside Manila,” while “attacks against activists, journalists and critics of the government” continue. “President Duterte has used the killing of thousands […]
(Eagle News)–A human rights group on Thursday, Nov. 30, lauded a Caloocan court’s decision to convict three policemen for the killing of Kian Delos Santos in 2017. But while the Human Rights Watch said it was “heartened” by the decision of Branch 125 Judge Rodolfo Azcuna “a triumph of justice and accountability,” it was “wary” P03 Arnel Oares, P01 Jerwin Cruz and P01 Jeremias Pereda would escape liability “because (President Rodrigo) Duterte has promised to […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Human rights issues in the Philippines may be a topic for discussion during the meeting between United States President Donald Trump and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, according to reports. The meeting between the two leaders would be held on the sidelines of the 31st Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit next month. Earlier, Trump expressed admiration for President Duterte’s war on illegal drugs. https://youtu.be/9kZLAABSsSc
by Cécile Feuillatre Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) – French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to Paris on Tuesday under pressure from human rights groups to end what they call France’s “disgraceful policies of indulgence” towards him. Sisi, a former general who ousted the elected Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013, will meet the French defense and foreign ministers as well as business groups during his three-day trip that started on Monday. Macron, […]
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AFP) – The United Nations faced criticism Friday after naming Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe a “goodwill ambassador” to promote health causes, despite the country’s dire health crisis under his rule. The UN World Health Organization (WHO) asked Mugabe to serve in the role to help tackle non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart attacks, strokes and asthma across Africa. Mugabe, 93, was in Uruguay for the announcement by WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who said he […]
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) – Pressure tightened on Myanmar Monday as a rights group urged world leaders to impose sanctions on the country’s military, which is accused of driving out more than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims in an orchestrated “ethnic cleansing” campaign. The call from Human Rights Watch came as the UN General Assembly prepared to convene in New York, with the ongoing crisis in Myanmar billed as one of most pressing topics. The mass exodus of Rohingya refugees to […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Alan Peter Cayetano called the Human Rights Watch a biased source of information on Monday, saying the group concluded drug suspects were being executed extrajudicially even if it only interviewed 24 of the 7,000 drug cases in the country. “HRW did not interview any of the (Philippine National Police officials),” the senator added during the Senate inquiry into the alleged killings of the so-called Davao Death Squad. Cayetano was referring to the 80-page report titled […]
(Eagle News) — Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella slammed a report released by the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) calling on donor countries to end all assistance to the Philippine National Police (PNP) until the killings stop. “We would advise special interest groups to do their homework more diligently before attempting to engage in propaganda,” Abella said in a statement. He said that the group should present solid evidence and prove their claims in court. […]
KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait (AFP) — Human Rights Watch criticized Kuwait on Thursday for ending a moratorium on executions by hanging seven people, saying the action was part of a worrying regional rise in use of the death penalty. “Kuwait’s killing of seven people on January 25 highlights the alarming trend in the region for countries to return to or increasingly use the death penalty,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, HRW’s Middle East director. The executions on […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) by Martin PARRY The Australian government ordered an inquiry Tuesday after graphic evidence emerged of prison guards assaulting teenage boys, with one shown hooded and shackled in scenes likened to Guantanamo Bay. National broadcaster ABC on Monday night showed footage of offenders, many indigenous, being stripped naked, tear-gassed and held in solitary confinement for weeks at a youth detention centre in the Northern Territory in 2014 and 2015. In one video from last […]
