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Privatization Threatens Rights; The West’s Butchery; Filipino Rights Testimony in Congress
Unrestrained ‘Privatisation of Poverty-Reduction’ Puts Human Rights at Risk. Corporate lobbyists are unusual guests at development meetings, but when the United Nations held its Financing for Development conference in Addis Ababa this week to decide who pays for its new “Sustainable Development Goals”, some governments laid out the red carpet for the private sector.
Civilian Killings? West Literally Gets Away With Murder. The United Nations continues to come under heavy fire for singling out mostly non-Western states for human rights violations while ignoring the misdeeds of Western nations or big powers.
Filipino Human Rights Advocates Testify In Congress. Restrictions were placed in the annual foreign military financing package until such time the Philippine government could prove compliance with human rights conditions, including holding the Philippine military accountable for human rights abuses. The Aquino and Obama governments are pushing to have the restrictions to aid lifted, despite the former not having met the requirements set in 2007.
