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Malacaang on Thursday described as "unreasonable" calls from some groups for President Benigno Aquino's removal from his post over his administration's human rights record.

At a press briefing, Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. said Aquino had shown determination to uphold human rights, having suffered human rights abuses during the Martial Law years.

"Umiiral ang demokrasya at umiiral ang rule of law sa ating bansa. Mayroong mga usapin na naiharap na laban sa mga nagsagawa ng mga tinatawag na extra-judicial killings," Coloma told reporters.

"Sa aking palagay ay hindi makatwiran yung sinasabing dapat mag-resign ang Pangulo hinggil diyan," he added.

A group of human rights advocates from Southern Mindanao has been marching to Manila to protest supposed human rights violations in the area.

The protesters are particularly accusing the military of "gross violations of human rights."

Coloma however said that the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) under Aquino is already committed to promoting human rights.

Aquino has consistently maintained that his administration is addressing human rights violations, particularly extrajudicial killings.

Progressive human rights group Karapatan however said cases of human rights violations have been steadily rising under the Aquino administration, with 204 incidents of extrajudicial killing as of July. BM, GMA News

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Publication Date : 21-11-2014

Critics have excoriated President Joko Jokowi Widodo for his decision to name a political appointee as the countrys top prosecutor.

After leaving the position of attorney general vacant for almost a month, Jokowi inaugurated on Thursday NasDem legislator HM Prasetyo, 67, as attorney general in a move viewed by many legal and human-rights activists as a setback for the countrys law-enforcement efforts.

Human rights watchdog the Setara Institute questioned whether Prasetyo had the commitment to eradicating corruption and resolving human-rights violations cases, given his political background. The appointment of Prasetyo as attorney general is a sign that Jokowi is encumbered by political parties, Setara chairman Hendardi said.

Hendardi also said that the resolution of past human-rights abuses would take a back seat under Jokowis administration. This is also an indication that the proposal for a human-rights court will once again be left dormant, Hendardi said.

There are at least seven gross human-rights violations cases that have remained unresolved by the Attorney Generals Office (AGO), according to Setara. The cases include the 1989 Talangsari massacre in Central Lampung and the anti-Chinese riots in May 1998 that led to the downfall of president Soeharto.

Hendardi also warned Jokowi that he would achieve little in terms of law enforcement now that his attorney general and law and human rights minister, were both political appointees. He was referring to Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna H. Laoly, a former Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) lawmaker.

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The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights urged Iraq on Tuesday to join the International Criminal Court to address grave human rights violations perpetrated by the Islamic State group and other parties that have led to the deaths of thousands and displacement of more than two million people in that country.

In his first briefing to the 15-nation council since taking up his post in September, U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Zeid Raad al-Hussein said the crimes committed by Islamic State fighters are so monstrous that they should be examined by the International Criminal Court at The Hague.

The scale and violence of ISILs brutality towards civilians shreds every principle relevant to human rights," Zeid said, referring to another name for the militant group.

He warned that genocide may have been committed in Iraq, particularly with regard to Islamic State atrocities committed against the Yazidi religious minority.

Zeid said that out of the 11 offenses the ICC defines as crimes against humanity, the group is likely guilty of involvement in as many as nine of them. He said the Islamic State group has also committed war crimes.

Scale, gravity of violations

The commissioner noted that it is the primary responsibility of a state to prosecute crimes in its territory, but that the violations committed in Iraq are of such a scale and gravity that they qualify as international crimes.

He urged Baghdad to join the International Criminal Court so the court would have jurisdiction.

U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos told the council that 3.6 million people are living in Islamic State-controlled areas in Iraq and more than 2 million of them urgently need humanitarian assistance.

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The election is over. The Sith have won. Luke Skywalker has been tossed into the Great Pit of Carkoon and will, for the next 1,000 years, be digested alive by a sarlacc. Han Solo is again embedded in carbonite. Princess Leia is back at Jabba the Hutt's side, chained and bikini-clad, and, more than ever, in need of antidepressants.

The Force has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Sith. Yoda dead is, if even his syntax not is. Darth Vader, resurrected with a new fusion-powered heart, is bringing in millions on the fundraising circuit. The surviving Jedi Knights have become lobbyists for the Sith military-industrial complex, having decided, after lifetimes of low-paying public service, that it was time to get theirs. New Death Stars are coming off the Lockheed assembly line at four-hour intervals, each representing the GNP of a plundered world, each capable of destroying the world that built it should tribute be refused.

In a minor province on the planet Earth, a slave world in a minor subdivision of The Sith Empire, a Sith Senator calculates how much stature he'll gain by getting elevator inserts for his cowboy boots. Two Sith Representatives hold discreet meetings with a species of obese felines.

A Sith Governor contemplates running for a fifth term as an anti-immigrant move. A Chief of Sith Standardized Testing and Indoctrination contemplates wearing a sexy clown suit to the Provincial Inaugural Ball. A Sith Secretary of State calculates and re-calculates his pension, chuckles, and imagines what he will do to all the humans who dare dislike him now.

None of these evil entities knows it, but each carries a germ of rot that will threaten the Empire Itself. It comes in the form of a question: What is Evil for, once it's utterly and irrevocably won? When you've dedicated your life not just to destroying enemies but to grinding their faces in the dirt, what do you do when there are no more enemies, and, in those regrettable cases where a Death Star had to be used, no more dirt?

Can the Sith still fear-monger against aliens when they themselves are as emotionally alien as DNA-based life-forms can get? Can they come out against alternate sexual practices when they themselves practice serial mating with Trophy Wives, those once-human cyborgs whose positronic brains are programmed for ritual shopping, cameo appearances on Sith Network talk shows and ever more cosmetic prostheses? Religious conflict, maybe? A million gods in the galaxy, but Mammon has always been the official Sith deity, and everyone dances to His music, no matter their professed spiritual loyalties.

No more worlds to conquer. Not even token resistance to the Dark Side. Hard-hitting investigative journalists morphed into Sith press secretaries or local TV news teams.

What now, Sith Overlords?

In the vast underwater city of Miami, in his Sea World Palace, Jebby the Bush, newly-appointed Sith Viceroy for Earth, stares out an oil-smeared porthole at his caged Orcas, who stare back impassively. What goes on in those giant Orca brains? The Viceroy watches as some rebellious human subjects, fingered by algorithms embedded in their Twitter accounts, are forced to don seal costumes and tossed into the Orca tank. Blood swirls in the water, but the spectacle doesn't warm the Viceroy's heart like it used to.

If only the Orcas would talk, he muses. Why is it that the really smart species never want to have anything to do with you?

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Still of Orbit of Rock by Zhang Ding, part of the Looks exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Photograph: ICA

Mass digital culture and an examination of the post-human world will be at the core of next years programme at the Institute of Contemporary Arts.

The London gallery will showcase a variety of young artists from around the world in its spring 2015 show, titled Looks. It will examine how they use their art to respond to the urgent social issues that have arisen out of technology and our online identities focusing on gender, sexuality and the obsession with celebrity culture.

Look, which opens next April, will feature new works ranging from film installations by LA-based filmmaker and artist Wu Tsang who examines social medias hold over society to paintings by French artist Juliette Bonneviot made partly from xenohormones, a material found in silicon and the pill.

This show is about acknowledging that we are living in a world where the digital and internet is our primary means of expression, that its become very important particularly in terms of our identity, said Katharine Stout, chief curator at the ICA. These artists are exploring the themes of digital, and the presence we create for ourselves online, but not always in a digital artistic format. It also explores how new technologies are affecting the way gender and sexuality are understood or even shaped in todays society.

One of the key pieces in the exhibition, said Stout, would be a video by Tsang, titled A Day in the Life of Bliss, which Stout described as extraordinary.

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Its set in the near future and it almost has a sci-fi feel to it, she said. It follows this protagonist called Bliss, who is a celebrity performer. And in this future world theres this phenomenon called Looks which is controlled by social media, where celebrities and their status is controlled by how many looks or likes they get. Its an immersive film installation but it has this very performative feel, which speaks to the idea that identity is now constantly performed as well as being something innate.

She added: It may be set in a fictional future but it is a powerful piece that very much speaks to current celebrity culture and our own lives, which are very much controlled by social media.

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Facebook has decided to exert more control over posts that it deems "overly promotional." Ultimately, though, isn't every Facebook post by a company promotional?

Are the people Facebook is putting first its users? Or is the profit motive too hard to resist? James Martin/CNET

How human are corporations?

This thought has been niggling at me like a dyspeptic cornerback all weekend. I've been thinking, you see, about Facebook suddenly deciding to curtail companies' enthusiasm for posting overly commercial messages to the site.

The pain, so Facebook says, is felt by the users, who don't want to see too many corporate messages. The pain, so I suspect, is felt by Facebook, which realizes that there's a lot more money to be made from companies.

Now it'll be harder for brands to post "overly promotional" messages. Well, it'll be easy to do it. It's just that Facebook may easily make these posts disappear into its algorithmic ether, where commercial messages float in a nothingness and have only each other to talk to.

It's odd to think that brands would be on Facebook for any other reason than to be promotional. Altruism is rarely at the heart of a brand's mission statement. (Yes, even Facebook's.)

Facebook's true purpose in this latest move -- a wild guess, this -- is to get brands to pay more money for "conventional" ads. Given that the company says Facebookers won't suddenly see more ads, the price of those ads to corporations will surely rise.

The company's new delineation of which posts will be deemed overly promotional and which ones won't is curious. As my colleague Ian Sherr describes, it includes: "ones that encourage people to buy a product, install an app, sign up for sweepstakes or reuse the content from an ad."

What possible reason could there be for a company to post something to Facebook, other than to encourage people to buy its product? Every corporate post on Facebook is, in some sense, advertising.

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After a gap of three years, the State Human Rights Commission has got a chairperson. Mrs. Justice (retd.) T. Meenakumari, former Chief Justice of the Meghalaya High Court, will hold the post for five years or till she attains the age of 70, according to a notification issued by Public Secretary Jatindra Nath Swain on Saturday.

Governor K. Rosaiah made the appointment, after the selection committee was said to have met last week and made its recommendation.

The post has been lying vacant since August 2011, when Mr. Justice (retd.) A.S. Venkatachalamoorthy laid down the office at the end of his five-year tenure. The Commission has two members: Jayanthi and K. Baskaran. Ms. Jayanthi, a former civil servant, is the acting chairperson. In September last, the Supreme Court asked the State to fill the vacancy expeditiously.

Mrs. Justice Meenakumari was the first Chief Justice of the Meghalaya High Court, holding the post between March23, 2013 and August 3, 2013, when she retired. She also served as a judge of the Andhra Pradesh, Madras and Patna High Courts.

It was in April 1997 that the SHRC was constituted in Tamil Nadu under the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993.Justice S. Nainar Sundaram was the first Chairperson, who held the post till his death in September 2001. There had been many acting chairpersons before Mr. Justice Venkatachalamoorthyassumed office in August 2006. Under the law, a State Commission should include a Chairperson who has been a Chief Justice of a High Court; one member who is or has been a High Court judge; one member who is or has been a district judge; and two members having knowledge of, or practical experience in, matters concerning human rights.

The New Delhi-based World Human Rights Commission and Rescue Centre has welcomed Ms. Justice Meenakumaris appointment.

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