
COMMENTThe Philippines is invoking the EU to disguise its lack of progress in pursuing human-rights abuses.
From October 2009 to April 2011, the European Union spent nearly €4 million on a project in the Philippines called the European Union-Philippines Justice Support Programme (EPJUST). The programme was meant to improve the Philippines's criminal justice and human-rights monitoring systems in order to put an end to extra-judicial killings and [...] Read more
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