Delegates to the International Conference for Human Rights and Peace in the Philippines, represented by Kuusela Hilo from the USA chapter of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS), Jeanne Mirer of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL), and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Marta Benavides from El Salvador, meet the Philippine media to hold the Aquino government accountable for continuing human rights violations in the country and to press for peace.
They will join the protest rally against President Benigno Aquino’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) on 22 July 2013.
Note: seated to their left is Oakwood mutineer now a representative in Congress, Rep. Ace Asedillo, and Tony Ligon, legal counsel for the Cojuangco-Aquino owned Hacienda Luisita, Inc.