RP called ‘New Colombia of Asia’

January 22, 2008  --  Got something to say?
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The Philippines has become the Asian country with the worst record of violence against trade unionists” and as the new Colombia of Asia, according the International Trade Union Confederation.

In its 2007 Annual Survey of Violations of Trade Unions Rights, the ITUC rebuked the Philippines over the murder of 33 trade unionists in what it described as an orgy of extrajudicial violence. It said up to three labor leaders are killed every month in the Philippines.

The number of slain Filipino unionists was 89 percent of 37 listed in the Asia and the Pacific, and 23 percent of the global total of 144, said the ITUC. The ITUC is the latest international organization to condemn extrajudicial executions in the Philippines.


Posted by News Team | Filed Under Philippine News 

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