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ESCR / Reports and Publications / Philippines / 2009 / April

Philippines: Philippines: Alternative Report to the CAT 'Preventing torture by acting on its economic, social and cultural root causes'

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This report describes how the poor, vulnerable and marginalised in their daily struggle for existence and in their legitimate activities to claim and protect their rights are met with violence on a large scale. Farmers and indigenous peoples wishing to have continued access to their means of living, the Muslim population of the Philippines seeking respect for their culture and way of life, workers seeking to protect their rights, victims of large scale mining operations, and human rights defenders working to protect those populations and their rights are subjected to torture, summary executions, forced disappearances and other forms of ill-treatment from public and private sources.  

 

Peaceful protests are seen as subversive by the Government and criminalised, and rural populations, under the guise of anti-subversive military operations, are prevented from growing their own food, their children are prevented from going to school and they are subjected to torture, ill-treatment, killings, disappearances and other serious human rights violations. The denial of economic, social and cultural rights weakens people to such an extent that the perpetrators of violence, by virtue of their positions of power over the victims, are able to commit such violence with impunity. This violence and lack of security, in turn, severely impede these people from escaping from poverty, of working in just and favourable conditions, of providing care and education to their children and enjoying an adequate standard of living and the highest attainable standard of health. 

 


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Date: April 9, 2009
Activity: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Type: Reports and Publications
Country: Philippines
Subjects: Arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances, Development projects, Employment and working conditions, Indigenous peoples, Land and Housing, Non-state actors, Police, Military and Paramilitary, Poverty, Rights of the child, Summary executions, extrajudicial killings, Torture and violence, Women’s rights

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