Business & Human Rights website publishes letter to President Arroyo

PIPLinks … presented a letter to President Arroyo…raising issues around the recent concluding observations of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) ... [that urge] the Government to acknowledge that racial discrimination exists in the Philippines, to ensure that Indigenous Peoples are protected in situations of armed conflict and that independent and impartial investigations are conducted into all allegations of human rights violations …[ I]t recommended that the Government fully implement the IPRA … [and] made specific recommendations on the activities of TVI Pacific, who are operating in the ancestral domain of the Subanon at Mount Canatuan …

See:- http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/165752