Human Rights Violations

“Gabriela Women’s Party stands in solidarity with all women human rights defenders and all women victims of state violence under Aquino’s Oplan Bayanihan. The justness of Filipino women’s collective and active defense of human rights is the source of strength that protects them against continuing state vilifications and harassments. Women’s activism is vital as they effectively advance the rights of all people by challenging inequality and repression that breeds human rights violation,” said GWP Rep.  read more »

GWP Rep. Emmi De Jesus condemned human rights violations under the Aquino Administration that continue to victimize women and persist amid the pronouncement of Philippine Army Chief Lt. Gen. Emmanuel Bautista that the AFP had been “seriously” addressing allegations of human rights violations against the military by prosecuting erring officers.  read more »

“The President’s human rights record speaks for itself with 70 persons tortured, 12 victims of enforced disappearance, 114 victims of extrajudicial killing, 127 victims of frustrated extrajudicial killing, and scores of other human rights violations under his administration. These plus his failure to arrest Gen. Jovito Palparan and immediate prosecution of Gloria Arroyo, are clear evidences of his administration’s endorsement of impunity and human rights violations.”  read more »

Gabriela Women’s Party Rep. De Jesus berated President Aquino for not walking his talk on combating graft and corruption in this country in the case of former President Gloria Arroyo.  read more »

Now that the doctors have said that Gloria Arroyo is well enough to leave the hospital, Gabriela solon reiterated demands of the people to send the former President to a regular jail and resume the hearings on the electoral fraud case filed against her.  read more »

“Why is the former President still in the hospital if she is well? If there is no more urgent and compelling life and death situation for the former President to stay at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center, then the courts should immediately decide on and facilitate her transfer to a regular detention facility.”  read more »

Over a hundred women holding prison placards created a chain of jail bars around the Veterans Memorial Medical Center. They decried the special treatment given the former President and demanded Mrs. Arroyo’s transfer to an ordinary detention center.  read more »

Gabriela Women’s Party Repesentative Luz Ilagan today called on the Department of Justice and the Veterans Memorial Medical Center to reveal how much it has been spending prettifying Mrs. Arroyo’s prison cell as she cautioned President Benigno Aquino III against overspending on the former president’s detention.  read more »

Gabriela Women's Party is enraged at the heightening political repression and harassment in the country at the eve of the start of official campaign period for the May elections. The group said that the current administration under President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in undoubtedly behind the recent arrests and harassment of leaders and members of legitimate organizations.  read more »