Government Initiated Human Rights Buster

Human Rights-What is all about? What are they? Why we should have them? These are the questions randomly running through my head upon hearing the word human rights in the news worldwide. Human Rights constitute laws and written standards for human to be aware of whether they are abuse or in any ways losing anything that are rightfully a person should have.

One is the Labor Code, design for employees to have a guiding law on how should an employee be treated and to know every benefits should an employee has in the duration of his/her stay in a company. Any form of tortures violates too the Human Rights, most controversial of it were the Martial Law Victims, from which the government now are paying back by giving them financial aid that even if it reach a million peso worth, the victims’ wounds from the past will never be healed by any amount.

Today, our country became well known all over the world because of Extra Judicial Killings are prominently incorporated with Duterte’s Administration. As part of his platforms, “War against drugs” is the top of his lists to conquer within his administration. Everyday a lot of bloods pour in every street in the whole country. Many are found dead with sign boards on top of the body stating “I am a drug addict”, a sort of justifying one’s death. Because of this all killings, the power of Article 1-30 constituting the Law on Human Rights has been useless since the recent administration put on their own hands the life of his so-called criminal due to drug addiction. This so-called “free killing”, violates the victims’ right to undergo necessary due process.

As a Catholic prominent country, I stand to my belief that this killing should come to an end. Everyone has the right to live at peace whether an addict or not once a sinner will not always be a sinner, each has the capacity to change for the better. Be human, claim every rights entitled to you. Government should be the law maker not a law buster.

References:

1. Muyot, Alberto T. (1992) Human Rights in the Philippines: 1986-1991. Quezon City: Institute of International Legal Studies p. 1.
2. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights” (www.un.org.)
3. Dumlao, Artemio “Torture continues in the Philippines- October 2017
4. Philippines: President Duterte must break the cycle of human rights violations (www. Amnesty.org)
5. Philippines: End Police Torture, Killings- January 29, 2017
6. Labor Advisory No. 12 Series of 2013
7. Tortyur: Human Rights Violations During the Marcos Regime www. Academia.edu.