By Michael T. Esmino
Managing
Editor
The United States
Sec. John Kerry released the 2014 Country Reports on Human Rights practices
where it was detailed that although the Philippines has continued to
investigate and prosecute human rights abuses, concerns about impunity remains.
The Human Rights Report is an annual
requirement for the US state secretary which he gives to the United States
Congress with “a full and complete report
regarding… the status of internationally recognized human rights.”
Additionally, the yearly report also describes the status of internationally
recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in countries around the world.
This year’s report was officially released on
June 25, 2015,
In the report, it stated that the US
government continues to assist the Philippine government in addressing a wide
range of human rights challenges, most notably through assistance directed
toward judicial efficiency and the reduction of case backlogs, the inclusion of
women in the peace process, protecting vulnerable populations in
disaster-affected areas, law enforcement and prosecutorial capacity-building,
and promoting sexual orientation and gender identity awareness.
Meanwhile, US ambassador to the Philippines
Philip S. Goldberg noted that “Extrajudicial killings remain foremost among the
human rights challenges in the Philippines.
I am encouraged by the interagency cooperation within the Philippine
government to address impunity, but more remains to be done.”
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