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International Human Rights Day in Bohol
« on: December 14, 2009, 05:03:50 PM »
COMMEMORATION of the International Human Rights Day in Bohol had advocates using different media to wave one unified call for ridding discrimination and more human rights awareness and protection, especially from state actors.

Street parliamentarians and militant groups Gabriela, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN), AnakPawis, Anak Bayan and farmer umbrella group Hugpong sa mga Mag-uumang Bol-anon (HUMABOL) KARAPATAN, BOKKANA and HUMABI took to the streets urging people and the government to keep up with the call for human rights protection.

Hitting on possible human rights abuses brought about by the ongoing martial law blanketed over Maguindanao which they claimed as dangerous and questionable, the rights activists also took pockmarks on Bohol anti-poverty projects and its effects especially in the jatropha, oil explorations, justice for activists Mayong Auxilio and Victor Olayvar as well as the Arroyo attempt to stick to power, the groups, marched along Airport Road, Lamdagan, Tabaco, Ma. Clara and then on to the plaza, going back to B. Inting where they converged to dramatize their concerns.

Representatives from the estimated three hundred rights advocates from above groups also took turns in loaded speeches in front of the city’s main square.

Meanwhile, at the same time, another group of rights advocates and members of the Local Monitoring Board (LMB) in Bohol hugged the radio for an hour-long discussion on rights issues.

Bohol’s LMB, installed by the Joint Monitoring Committee (JMC) of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the Communist Party of the Philippines New People’s Army National Democratic Front (CPP/NPA/NDF) has been tasked to locally monitor human rights incursions by either of the agreeing parties who signed the comprehensive agreement on the respect for human rights and the international humanitarian law (CARHRIHL), explains Dr. Asteria Estoreon during the weekly Kapihan sa PIA.

One of its biggest tasks is human rights education, Estoreon said adding that about 70% of Bohol’s barangays has had human rights education by the LMB already.

To this huge task, LMB has also cascaded its tasks of monitoring to the towns when it installed new monitoring centers to assure that complaints against the two conflicting partiers are noted and processed.

By virtue of an executive order of Governor Erico Aumentado, Bohol LMB has also installed more LMB town centers, two from each district, to compose the six new local government based monitoring center for human rights abuses, she added.

At the slow organization of the Barangay Human Rights Action Centers, the LMB has put up these centers to easily take on complaints against the military and the armed component of the CPP.NDF.

More on the rights monitoring, Diocese of Tagbilaran Social Action Center director Fr. Warli Salise said the diocese of Tagbilaran has committed its 58 parish priests to help in the job of monitoring human rights abuses. (PIA)

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