#enforced disappearances

[pannaginip]

Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines on Twitter @YACAPhilippines:

March 24, 2024 | Environmental Defenders, Dinukot

According to Karapatan Central Luzon II

"Eco Dangla and Axielle Tiong, two Church workers and environmental rights defenders were reported by witnesses and concerned citizens to have been savagely mauled, and dragged to a waiting SUV at on or about 8:00 pm today, March 24, at Barangay Polo, City of San Carlos, Pangasinan"

Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines strongly condemns the abduction of two environmental advocates.

These are the seventh and eighth incidents of abduction in the region, and they are just two of many human rights violations committed during the Marcos Jr. administration. We urge on the government to #SurfaceEcoDangla and #SurfaceAxielleTiong

Hands off human rights in the region Central Luzon!

2024 Mar. 24

[prabodhjamwal]

International Women's Day in the shadow of the conflict in Kashmir

“In Jammu and Kashmir, International Women’s Day is overshadowed by harsh reality and is more of a sombre reminder of the ongoing fighting than a reason to celebrate” Mehr un Nisa* On Friday, the global community celebrates International Women’s Day to honour the achievements of women and advocate for gender equality. This year, the United Nations has chosen the theme “Investing in Women:…

[enforceddisappearancesvictimsday]

484th Meeting, 26th Session, Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED).

Consideration of Honduras (cont'd) - 484th Meeting, 26th Session, Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED).

[dcviated]

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Families, friends and human rights groups hold a picket at the Northern Luzon Command headquarters in Tarlac to call on the military to surface UP Baguio alumni Dexter Capuyan and Gene "Bazoo" De Jesus, and to cease attacks against activists. 

Peasant and human rights groups from Central Luzon joined the protest to also demand from the military to surface Ma. Elena Pampoza and Elgene Mungcal, who were last seen in Moncada, Tarlac in July 2022.

Dittz De Jesus, Bazoo's mom, and Elie Capuyan, Dexter's younger brother, urged the military to allow them to enter the camp and look for their kin. Earlier today, they asked to enter with their lawyer and give a letter to NolCom's commanding officer but was refused entry. NOLCOM oversees the military operations in the Ilocos, Cordillera, Cagayan Valley, and Central Luzon regions.

Capuyan, a Bontoc-Ibaloy-Kankanaey, is accused by the police and military of being a ranking member of the [New People’s Army] in the Ilocos and Cordillera with an P1.85 million bounty for his capture. De Jesus, is the information and networking officer of the Philippine Task Force for Indigenous Peoples. Both were former UP Baguio student leaders, Capuyan in the 1980s and De Jesus from 2015-2016.

-- Sherwin De Vera for Rappler, 6 Jun 2023.

[variousqueerthings]

am very much enjoying the new season of leverage, breanna and our mr wilson both continue to be delightful additions, sophie gets to have her rightful place as person with the most mysterious past, and there’s juuuust a bit more poking at the fact that being in the military special-ops was a severely traumatising and overall fucked up experience for eliot (i dont expect groundbreaking analysis of the military, but I will take them saying “military industrial complex” + canonically joining up as a young man from a relatively poor town because of incorrect stories about what the military had to offer, before being trapped there suggested at least partially against his will)

also features hardison and parker being ridiculously into each other every time they’re together + hardison/parker/eliot polycule is still very easy to headcanon

[blackbonnet]

literally the way some succession bloggers are reacting to the episode is so fucking... "out of touch" can only begin to describe it. only one post mentioned jess. people talk about ken's daughters but only in passing talking about ken being a bad person DUH doy

[murderousink23]

08/30/2022 is International Cabernet Sauvignon Day, International Whale Shark Day, Slinky Day, National Toasted Marshmallow Day, International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances

[pannaginip]

Katribu Youth on Twitter @katribu_natl:

LIGTAS NA PAGBABALIK PARA KINA DEXTER CAPUYAN AT BAZOO DE JESUS! [We demand the safe return of Dexter Capuyan and Bazoo de Jesus!]

Marami na ang napagtagumpayang laban nina Dexter and Bazoo bilang mga lingkod Katutubo. [Dexter and Bazoo have won many battles as indigenous rights activists.]

Hindi tayo susuko at mananatiling hihiling sa kanilang ligtas na pagbabalik! Patuloy tayong maniningil at aaksyon! [We will not give up and we will continue demanding their safe return! We will continue holding them accountable and taking action!]

SURFACE DEXTER CAPUYAN! SURFACE BAZOO DE JESUS! SURFACE ALL DESAPARECIDOS! ✊

Iniimbitahan ng Kabataan para sa Tribung Pilipino sa muling pagkakataon ang lahat! Tumindig tayo at makiisa sa kampanyang ligtas na pagbabalik ni Dexter at Bazoo ngayong Abril 29, sa Camp Crame, 9:00 AM. [Kabataan para sa Tribung Pilipino invites everyone once again! Let's take a stand and join the campaign for the safe return of Dexter and Bazoo this April 29, in Camp Crame, 9:00 AM.]

#SurfaceDexterCapuyan #SurfaceBazooDeJesus #SurfaceAllDesaparecidos

2024 Arp. 28

[enforceddisappearancesvictimsday]

472nd Meeting, 26th Session, Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED).

Opening of session - Watch the 472nd Meeting, 26th Session, Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED).

The Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) is the body of independent experts which monitors the implementation of the Convention for the Protection of all Persons against Enforced Disappearance by the States parties. The Committee and its Secretariat work daily to support victims, civil society organizations, National Human Rights Institutions and States to search for and locate disappeared persons, eradicate, punish and prevent this crime, and repair the damage suffered by the victims.

26th Session, Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) - 19 February - 01 March 2024.

[tishalfdeadwaffles]

Each passing day I discover darker and more twisted events that happened in the massacre a decade back in my home country and I’m still in disbelief that there are people who condone it, who thought it’s alright to murder civilians for protesting, but even more terrified by the generation that has no idea what happened even though it’s been just 11 years and they haven’t heard of it, even people my age. It’s so heartbreaking

[studentofetherium]

[parwatisingari]

International Day of the disappeared

.Is a call to end enforced disappearances worldwide.  Enforced disappearances is a harrowing human rights violation, has been used as a tool to spread fear and insecurity within societies globally. Its reach extends beyond the immediate and affects their families, communities and entire nations. This grave issue transcends borders and is no longer confined to military dictatorships, as it has…

[theearnestonion]

rant in the tags time. its angry and there's caps and swears and discusses.. ableism, I guess?? so beware and all that.

[indizombie]

The rate of impunity for journalist killings remains “shockingly high” at 86 per cent. Combating impunity remains a pressing commitment on which international cooperation must be further mobilized, the organization said. In addition to killing, journalists in 2022 also were victims of other forms of violence. This included enforced disappearance, kidnapping, arbitrary detention, legal harassment and digital violence, with women particularly being targeted. The UNESCO study highlighted challenges for journalists, pointing out that the weaponization of defamation laws, cyber laws, and anti “fake news” legislation, are being used as a means of limiting freedom of speech and creating a toxic environment for journalists to operate in.

‘Killings of journalists up 50 per cent in 2022: UNESCO’, UN News

[opencommunion]

The Stop Cop City movement has sought to prevent the expropriation of part of the Welaunee Forest for the development of an 85-acre police mega training center: a model town to prepare the state’s repressive arms for the urban warfare that will ensue when the contradictions of their exploitation and extraction become uncontainable, as they did in 2020 after the APD murdered Rayshard Brooks.  That murder, and all those that came before, were the lodestars of the Black-led movement during the George Floyd uprisings; their demands were no less than the dismantlement of the entire carceral system. Unable to effectively manage or quell the popular street movements, the Atlanta Police Foundation set out to consolidate and expand their capabilities for surveillance, repression, imprisonment, armed violence, and forced disappearance. One result is Cop City, which has been racked by militant sabotage, land occupation, arson, and popular mobilizations, in an attempt to end the construction and return Atlanta to its people.  As the Atlanta Police Foundation was unable to contain the 2020 Black rebellion, so too have they been unable to quell the resistance against Cop City. The press reports that the project is hemorrhaging money and is mired in delays and difficulties. For their part, the city, the state, and the federal government, have in turn employed every tool in their power to destroy the movement. Last week, the Georgia State Senate passed a bill to effectively criminalize bail funds in the state; RICO charges have been contorted to target networks of support and care that surround the fighters; and last January, APD assassinated the comrade Tortuguita in cold blood while they rested in their tent in the forest. It is clear that Stop Cop City represents one of the conjunctural spear tips for expanding the existing systems of counterinsurgency that span Africa, Asia, and the Arab world.  Today the system’s belly rests atop Gaza, whose rumblings shake the earth upon which we walk. Through its Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE) program, the APD has sent hundreds of police to train with the Zionist occupation forces. And in October 2023, after Tufan al-Aqsa, the Atlanta Police Department engaged in hostage training inside abandoned hotels, putatively intended to “defeat Hamas,” in an advancement of tactics for the targeting of Black people. With every such expansion, the ability of counterinsurgency doctrines to counteract people’s liberation struggles grows. The purpose of counterinsurgency is to marshal state and para-state power into political, social, economic, psychological, and military warfare to overwhelm both militants and the popular cradle—the people—who support them. Its aim is to render us hopeless; to isolate and dispossess us and to break our will to resist it by any and all means necessary. This will continue apace, unless we fight to end it. Stop Cop City remains undeterred: on Friday, an APD cop car was burnt overnight in response to the police operation on February 8; yesterday, two trucks and trailers loaded with lumber were burnt to the ground. An anonymous statement claiming credit for the former, stated: “We wish to dispel any notion that people will take this latest wave of repression lying down, or that arresting alleged arsonists will deter future arsons.”  As the U.S. government and Zionist entity set their sights on the Palestinian people sheltering in Rafah, as they continue their relentless genocide of our people in Khan Younis, Jabalia, Shuja’iyya, and Gaza City, the Stop Cop City movement has clearly articulated its solidarity with the Palestinian struggle. They have done so with consistency and discipline, and we have heard them. Our vision of freedom in this life and the next requires us to confront and challenge the entangled forces of oppression in Palestine and in Turtle Island, and to identify the sites of tension upon which these systems distill their forces. This week, as with the last three years, the forest defenders have presented us one such crucible.

(11 Feb 24)

National Lawyers Guild, Stop All Cop Cities: Lessons For a National Struggle (video, 1 hr 45 min)