The pursuit of justice doesn’t have to be heroic. All it requires is for a lawyer to be humane. | via philstarlife
, senior researcher of Human Rights Watch-Asia Division, 61 lawyers had been killed under the previous administration alone. That’s more than half of the 110 murdered human rights lawyers since 1972, including the 22 who fell under the presidency of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Many were killed for their defense of human rights. The National Union of People’s Lawyers said, ‘almost all perpetrators have never been brought to the bar of justice.’”The pursuit of justice doesn’t have to be heroic.
I don’t usually get in the sorry habit of upsetting fresh graduates, especially the close to 10,000 would-be lawyers who are currently taking theSee, the line you’re about to cross, if by any chance you choose to champion human rights, is nowhere near being a demilitarized zone. With it comes the thick smell of gunpowder, the thunder of boots, and the odor of conflict between human rights and authoritarian control.
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