Human Rights Violations

Resolution directing the House of Representatives Committee on Civil Service and Professional Regulation to conduct an investigation, in aid of legislation, on the dismissal of Intramuros Administration (IA) employees alledgedly without undergoing due process, and recommend measures to protect the rights and welfare of the affected employees

Resolution directing the House of Representatives through the Committees on Women, Foreign Affairs and Overseas Filipinos to look into the allegations of trafficking using consular privileges as shown in the cases of Marichu Baoanan and Arlene Gado and recommend measures thereof

Resolution directing the House Committees on the Welfare of Children and on Human Rights to conduct an immediate investigation on the alleged continuing abduction of a minor named Fatima Gumanoy, urge the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to immediately release the victim, the Department of Justice to prosecute individuals and institutions responsible for the crime, and recommend measures thereof

A resolution directing the House Committee on Foreign Affairs to investigate the apparent blatant disregard of our Philippine sovereignty and constitution when American soldiers who are in the country through the RP-US Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) reportedly ordered the closure of Panamao District Hospital in Sulu and recommend measures towards the termination of the VFA in the light of said incident other violations of human rights committed against Filipino people and the Philippine Constitution by the U.S. military forces  read more »

A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Arroyo government should put a stop to the massive military operations in the countryside in the light of increasing numbers of children internally displaced and victims of various human rights violations and that the state should give protection to women and children in conflict areas

A resolution urging the House Committee on Human Rights to conduct an immediate inquiry into the increasing practice of the Armed Forces of the Philippines of tagging or branding children in conflict areas as children combatants as in the case of Grecile Buya, a nine-year-old girl allegedly killed and tagged as child combatant by elements of the 28th and 67th batallion in New Bataan, Compostela Valley and recommending measures to ensure the protection and promotion of children in areas of conflict