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The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW), a global rights body, has urged President Aquino to stop the killings of anti-mining activists as the Philippines pushes to revitalize the mining sector.

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The New York-based Human Rights Watch yesterday said that the absence of successful prosecution of human rights violations highlights the broader problems on extra-judicial killings facing the Aquino administration.

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 An international human rights group said yesterday President Aquino has not fulfilled his promises to hold accountable the security forces responsible for serious abuses, two years after he assumed his post.

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) admitted yesterday to facing a dilemma in securing witnesses in the case of the massacre of 57 people in Maguindanao on Nov. 23, 2009 after the recent discovery of the killing of another key prosecution witness.

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Gunshots rang out and residents fled blazing homes in western Myanmar on yesterday as security forces struggled to contain deadly ethnic and religious violence that has killed at least a dozen people and forced thousands to flee.

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 It sounds a lot like the old, military-run Myanmar, and not much like the reform-minded new one: A feared army attacking civilians indiscriminately, razing homes and raping women while the government prevents international aid from reaching tens of thousands of displaced survivors.

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A US-based human rights group yesterday urged President Aquino to order the military to cooperate with civilian authorities in arresting retired general Jovito Palparan and others charged with the enforced disappearance of two activists in 2006.

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An international human rights group said President Benigno Aquino III reneged in his promise to stop the impunity of abuses by state security forces.

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The National Democratic (NDF) justified the series of attacks of the New People’s Army (NPA) in several mining firms in Mindanao early this week, adding that the government is “missing the point” of the atrocity.

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A human rights watchdog asked the New People’s Army, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), to immediately end unlawful killings and detention of civilians.

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The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW), a global rights body, has urged President Aquino to stop the killings of anti-mining activists as the Philippines pushes to revitalize the mining sector.

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 An international human rights group said yesterday President Aquino has not fulfilled his promises to hold accountable the security forces responsible for serious abuses, two years after he assumed his post.

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) admitted yesterday to facing a dilemma in securing witnesses in the case of the massacre of 57 people in Maguindanao on Nov. 23, 2009 after the recent discovery of the killing of another key prosecution witness.

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A US-based human rights group yesterday urged President Aquino to order the military to cooperate with civilian authorities in arresting retired general Jovito Palparan and others charged with the enforced disappearance of two activists in 2006.

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An international human rights group said President Benigno Aquino III reneged in his promise to stop the impunity of abuses by state security forces.

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The National Democratic (NDF) justified the series of attacks of the New People’s Army (NPA) in several mining firms in Mindanao early this week, adding that the government is “missing the point” of the atrocity.

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A human rights watchdog asked the New People’s Army, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), to immediately end unlawful killings and detention of civilians.

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