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==ARMM OIC governor, 5 governors of component provinces push for CHR regional office in ARMMBy Modesto Antonio G. Ibarra== | |||
*Source: http://balita.ph/2012/03/06/armm-oic-governor-5-governors-of-component-provinces-push-for-chr-regional-office-in-armmby-modesto-antonio-g-ibarra/ | |||
*March 6, 2012 1:12 am | |||
:by (PNA) RSV/magi | |||
MANILA, March 5 — The Officer-in-Charge of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), together with the governors of the five component provinces, are agog in creating the regional office of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) in ARMM. | |||
In the consultation meeting on the establishment of a CHR ARMM regional office held at the CHR national office in Quezon City on Monday, March 5, 2012, Attorney Anwar Malang, ARMM executive secretary, representing OIC-Regional Governor Mujiv Hataman, led the five component governors, Honorable Esmael “Toto” Mangudadatu, Maguindano; Hon. Mamintal Alonto Adiong Jr., Lanao del Sur; Hon. Jum Akbar, Basilan; Hon. Abdusakur Tan, Sulu and Hon. Sadikul Sahali, Tawi-Tawi, thanked the national government and its implementing arm for human rights, the CHR, presented the urgent situations in their respective provinces that necessitate the establishment of a CHR regional office in ARMM. | |||
ARMM Exec. Sec. Malang said the foremost concern of the regional and national CHR is the establishment of CHR regional office. He expressed optimism on the smooth sailing of the course towards the creation of the CHR regional office. Final touches would be installed on their next consultative meeting later this month of March. | |||
The Mindanao Human Rights Action Center (MindHRAC) through Atty. Zainuddin Malang presented the situations, challenges and opportunities on the human rights in ARMM. | |||
In the situation of human rights Malang classified human rights violations (HRVs) as structural conflict related and non-conflict related. ARMM provinces are beset by the usual HRVs facing other provinces of the country (e.g. illegal arrest, torture, summary execution, etc.). In addition it is also beset by HRVs arising from structural violence (indiscriminate artillery, shelling, mass burning of homes) | |||
Basilan Gov. Akbar, the female provincial executive in ARMM, pictured her province to be the most vulnerable of human rights violation,citing the presence of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the Abu Sayyaf and the lost commands, not to mention the violations committed by the police and the military in her jurisdiction. | |||
Govs. Tan and Adiong echoed the sentiments of Gov Akbar citing the previous human rights violations committed in their respective areas years ago. Both invoked the urgency of the ARMM regional CHR office even as they, Tan offered Sulu as the venue for the said office expressing readiness for his assistance financially and logistically, since he said, it is more difficult to travel from the ARMM to Cotabato, the seat of ARMM, than from ARMM to Manila. | |||
Tawi-Tawi Gov. Sahali had another concern in his province – perpetrators of human trafficking are making Tawi-Tawi the jump off point of human traffickers going to Sabah. Malaysia. He said he wants to stop human trafficking in his province, that is why a human rights office is very necessary in the province. | |||
For its part, CHR, headed by Chairperson Loretta Ann “Etta” Rosales, said the “creation of regional human rights mechanism in ARMM has long been in the pipeline. Previous attempts to legislate one into existence have failed due to several factors, foremost of which is the lack of structural safeguards to ensure the independence of the proposed regional human rights commission from contending political forces.” | |||
”The CHR appreciates the expressed commitment of the Aquino Administration to help operationalize human rights protection and promotion in the region through the establishment of the CHR ARMM regional office,” the statement continued. | |||
It added, “In preliminary consultations with the CHR, the new ARMM leadership has explicitly expressed a preference at this point for an ARMM human rights body organically attached to the national Commission on Human Rights, instead of RHRC as contemplated in their organic act.” | |||
With their full support for this establishment of CHR ARMM regional office OIC Gov. Hataman and the five governors believe they can draw strong stakeholders for the realization of the proposal. | |||
==Tawi-tawi police chief: Gaticales let suspect in human trafficking go== | ==Tawi-tawi police chief: Gaticales let suspect in human trafficking go== | ||
*Source: http://www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2012/03/05/tawi-tawi-police-chief-gaticales-let-suspect-in-human-trafficking-go/ | *Source: http://www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2012/03/05/tawi-tawi-police-chief-gaticales-let-suspect-in-human-trafficking-go/ | ||
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Gaticales’ husband, P01 Jonard Ladjahassan, a member of the provincial police but detailed to the MIACAT, told MindaNews that on February 21, his uncle Patta Tarabas, a tricycle driver who is a neighbor of Sayadih, brought Sayadih to the Provincial Prosecutor to help secure Gaticales’ release. At that time, charges against Gaticales had already been filed. | Gaticales’ husband, P01 Jonard Ladjahassan, a member of the provincial police but detailed to the MIACAT, told MindaNews that on February 21, his uncle Patta Tarabas, a tricycle driver who is a neighbor of Sayadih, brought Sayadih to the Provincial Prosecutor to help secure Gaticales’ release. At that time, charges against Gaticales had already been filed. | ||
It is not clear why Sayadih was not presented to the police. (Jules Benitez, MindaNews) | It is not clear why Sayadih was not presented to the police. (Jules Benitez, MindaNews) | ||
==Activist monitoring human trafficking in Bongao detained, charged== | ==Activist monitoring human trafficking in Bongao detained, charged== | ||