Faces, Places and Phases of Martial Law in the Philippines
A Father’s Plea: Medical Attention for Ericson Acosta
by Free Ericson Acosta on Tuesday, July 31, 2012 at 5:26pm ·
DEAR FRIENDS,
Political prisoner Ericson Acosta is in need of medical attention. Please forward, blog, tweet and share this letter of appeal from the Acosta family. We also encourage everybody to write to the Department of Justice (DOJ) to request the resolution of the Ericson Acosta case review which has been pending for almost a year. You may also address appeals to concerned government officials to drop trumped-up charges against Ericson and effect his immediate release.
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New Protection Manual for Human Rights Defenders
by: Human Rights Education Associates (www.hrea.org)
The purpose of this manual is to provide human rights defenders with knowledge and tools that may be useful for improving their understanding of security and protection. This manual contains an overall framework as well as a step-by-step approach to draw a security plan and to to manage security process. It includes some thoughts on basic concepts like risk, vulnerability and threat, and a few suggestions for how to improve and develop security for defenders in their day-to-day work. It is based on the combined experiences of Protection International members in working with human rights and humanitarian law and in the protection of human rights defenders and other vulnerable groups.
Human Rights Defenders-Pilipinas 