Human Rights in the Philippines

Individual Rights are rights that a person has that include the freedom to think, act, work, and behave. Freedom of speech, the right to live, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and many more similar rights are rights that we have as individuals. It all started on December 10, 1948 when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted. Individual Rights provide us with freedom that cannot be interfered by no one including the government. The moral principle of the Individual Rights is “right” which symbolizing the freedom we each have. We hold the freedom of action meaning us as individuals get to do what we desire. Right shows a positive which is what we hold when we have the obligation of doing something.

Each individual has their own sets of values and beliefs that they are entitled to, which are different across different countries. Every country has a type of standard patterned behavior known as norms, which fluctuates over time. In the United States, there are many different types of norms and societal needs that vary among cities and states. The norms in the society, includes specific laws that people follow, which are made by the people themselves. Through those norms are morals, which are beliefs about the significance of the bad verses desired behavior or the wrong from right. The laws and rights were created to help give the people more power and have some type of security. In our society power is very important and are being used

The details are contained in a report compiled by an international team of investigators led by respected Australian jurist Michael Kirby and released this week by the United Nations' Human Rights Council. The report, based on more than 300 interviews with people who have left the country, accuses the regime of a wide range of crimes against humanity and recommends that the U.N. Security Council refer the matter to the International Criminal Court for prosecution.

Moreover, the bigger problem is with Trump and his administration team. Trump’s nominee for secretary of state said that human rights should be a main priority for the United States; but, Rex W. Tillerson (nominee for secretary of the state) failed to comment on the Philippines presidents huge human rights violation (Landler). Philippines president Duterte’s war on drugs is a huge violation it could be seen as the equivalent to a mini genocide. All the drug dealers and users in the country face death or be put to a camp to

Colombia’s stance on human rights is still a work in progress. Many people such as rights advocates Colombia’s stance on human rights is still a work in progress. Many people such as rights advocates continue to be attacked. More than 110 cases have been committed from the year 2009 and up. Human rights defenders are being attacked in such a way that the Interior Minister of Colombia is in charge of a protection program that protects them (World Report 2015: Colombia, 2015). The president of Colombia made a statement that the assistance from the U.S. is very effective in the fight against human rights and drug trafficking. The U.S. secretary of State John Kerry gave great accolades on how the country of Colombia is becoming a stabilized institution

Our government through the plebiscite persuades us to support crimes against humanity and to declared this kinds of events as related to political crimes in order to approve a process that it doesn’t have guarantees, we are talking about for the justice of “5.7 million victims of forced displacement, 220,000 dead, more than 25,000 missing, and almost 30,000 kidnapped” (Infobae, 2016) there are some of the numbers that we can contribute to FARC-EP group, a guerrilla movement who is a terrorist group considered globally and members that try to avoid prosecutions and judicial penalties to evade their responsibilities for crimes against

only a supporting role to the Police and Metropolitan Guards in the counterinsurgency, was ordered into action. They relied on mass arrests, torture to allegedly gain info on Tupamaros, and large cordon-and-search operations, where warrants weren’t needed. This was done to those allegedly accused of politically motivated crimes. The tortures consisted of: deprivation of water and food, prohibition to take care of psychological needs in the usual places, wrenching of limbs, use of handcuff and even having their heads submerged under water until they began to suffocate. The use of electrical needles, burning genital organs and anus, with cigarettes, were other accounts of torture. These brutalities had been practiced on innocent people who had yet to be tried in court.

The DPRK has ratified some core international human rights treaties, among which the International Covenant for Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), and provides for a national legal framework offering protection for the most basic human rights. However, the legal framework is not in line with international human rights law. The guarantees against arbitrary detention are insufficient and there are literally no procedural safeguards or fair trial guarantees provided for so-called political criminals. These, at highest risk of abuse, find themselves at complete mercy of State officials. Torture and ill-treatment are not criminalised and their practice is instead widespread and systematic, and perpetrated as part of a

“A right is not what someone gives you, it’s what no one can take from you,” said by Ramsey Clark (NY Times 1977), lawyer and human rights activist. Human rights are important in the relationship between the people, and the government that has power over them. These sets of rights draw a line in the sand for what the people in power can and cannot do to their citizens. Globally, there are millions of people whose rights are violated daily and nothing is done to protect these individuals. While governments have always been obsessed with external threats and conflicts, they have continuously overlooked the basic human rights of their people, which has resulted in the enslavement, discrimination and racism because of a lack of involvement and the bystander effect violations continue with no change in sight.

For the purposes of this paper, the history of targeted killings will begin with the modern role of political assassinations near the end of the twentieth century, as they loosely fall under the previously established definition for target killings. In response to public outcry regarding post-Watergate revelations that CIA organized and orchestrated a series of assassination attempts on the life of Cuban President Fidel Castro, then President Gerald Ford issued Executive Order 11905. This executive order, under section 5(g) entitled “Prohibition on Assassination,” states that, “No employee of the United States Government shall engaged in, or conspire to engage in, political assassination.” Both succeeding presidents, Carter and Reagan, affirmed the assassination prohibition; and as there has yet to be a piece of legislation that overrides it, it still remains in place. This prohibition is critical in a legal context because it provided the founding directive that specifically precluded targeted killings. However, administrations ranging as far back as Reagan, and as recent as today’s, have both stated that such directives do not apply when the United States is acting in self defense, such as in the proposed cases of the bombing the home of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in the 1980s, by the Reagan administration, or missile strikes on the

A great majority of the human trafficking that occurs in the Philippines is controlled by organized crime organizations and complicit law enforcement officers who operate through fraudulent recruitment agencies and traffic migrants (“Philippines”). These

Human rights are universal rights that we are entitled to. It is a freedom that is guaranteed based on the principle of respect for an individual. As mentioned in the preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, human rights are a “recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all member of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice, and peace in the world” (Kent, page 80). When asked what our rights are, we tend to get different answers and meanings. Some people recite the rights that they know; but let’s face it, not everyone knows all of the rights that they truly have. The rights we have consist of many things such as the right of having an adequate food supply. The right to

Popularly known as the 1987 Constitution, is the constitution or the supreme law of the Republic of the Philippines. It was enacted in 1987, during the administration of President Corazon C. Aquino.[1]

Glendon, Mary Ann (2002). A world made new: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Random House. ISBN

“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.”