When It Comes To Telling People What’s Good For Them, No Plane Ride Is Too Long

[GMA News] MANILA, Philippines – Some 339 world activists approved a resolution opposing all destructive offshore mining activities in the Philippines during the Third International Assembly of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) held in Hong Kong last June 18-20.

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Corpuz said those who approved the anti-offshore mining resolution in the Philippines include social activists from the United States, Canada, Brazil, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Turkey, Austria,Italy, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Malaysia, Taiwan, China, Indonesia, South Korea, Japan, Mongolia, Australia, and New Zealand.

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Above The Law, But Hey, For A Good Cause

Any person…any investigation. One hell of a get-out-of-jail-free card:

[Philippine Daily Inquirer] She pointed out that as an investigative body, the CHR has been mandated to grant immunity to any person whose testimony or whose possession of documents or other evidence could help determine the truth in any investigation conducted by the commission.

But the commission’s immunity power has been “under utilized or has never been used” in recent years, in terms of pushing witnesses in extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances to come forward, noted De Lima.

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