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A year into lockdown, the powerful get away with violating protocols
BY REIN TARINAY
A year into the pandemic, double standards on how minimum health standards and quarantine protocols are observed remains evident, with government officials and personalities breaching protocols and getting away with it while nearly 600,000 Filipinos, mostly poor, have been warned, ticketed, fined, and charged over quarantine violations.
News reports revealed that the renewed stricter lockdown implementation has led to the arrests of almost 50,000 Filipinos in the first week of March 2021 alone. This amid another surge in the number of new daily COVID-19 cases, vaccination roll out for health workers and the poor still delayed, social protection for displaced workers wanting, and the country’s testing capacity and contact tracing remaining weak.
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Global mission finds local remedies for rights victims in PH illusory
Progressive groups stage a protest condemning the recent case of police brutality. (Photo by Altermidya)“Domestic remedies have been ineffective at providing redress and at halting continued abuses. The power imbalance between victims of state violence, and perpetrators who have the backing of government apparatuses, is grave. Structures to redress this imbalance are lacking.”
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
MANILA – Human rights violations in the Philippines have intensified and the domestic remedies available for the victims are not working.
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