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30 Aug 2013

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InterAksyon.com (Philippines)

No reason to celebrate – Law vs enforced disappearances a token under PNoy, say kin of missing [Philippines]

The families of persons who remain missing after being abducted by suspected state agents said…government indifference and continued human rights abuses give them no reason to celebrate the passage of what has been hailed as a landmark law against enforced disappearances…[This year’s commemoration of ] International Day of the Disappeared…[was the first in the country] after the passage of…the “Anti-Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance Act of 2012.”…The latest incident involved Bryan Epa of Nueva Vizcaya, an anti-mining activist who was abducted, allegedly by police…