Rights Watch: Philippines does not penalize violators of human rights

Rights Watch: Philippines does not penalize violators of human rights

Revealed the annual report for 2013 issued on Friday, the organization "Human Watch" for Human Rights on progress Philippines progress in the field of legislation of laws on human rights in 2012, noting at the same time to the failure of the Government of "Manila" in accounting security personnel responsible for the violation of thisrights.

Said Brad Adams, Director of Asia organization "Human Rights Watch" in a statement issued by the office of the organization in the Philippines, "the human rights situation in general in the Philippines improved in 2012, with the reduction of extrajudicial executions, and pass laws historical support of human rights.

He added, "but the government has failed in the face of impunity in the most serious violation cases, and with regard to prosecute violators of human rights, it needs to actions and not words only."

Since 2001, registered organizations defending human rights 114 cases extrajudicial executions of leftist activists, journalists and human rights defenders to clerics, and organizations recorded 13 cases in 2012, including the execution of three journalists.