Government inaction in Pakistan as enforced disappearances continue
Dawn newspaper in Pakistan published an editorial today saying that “an air of stultifying inaction has descended over the issue of enforced disappearances, even as people continue to go missing.” It notes that the Supreme Court has cited the government’s failure to locate missing persons and has asked the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances to submit a report on its “perceptible progress”. “Umpteen court hearings and multiple meetings of the commission have achieved virtually nothing, and thousands of families continue to exist in limbo, not knowing whether their loved ones are alive or dead,” the paper says. http://bit.ly/2sYa8B4
Philippines “open to inquiry” into extrajudicial killings
The Philippines will allow an investigation into alleged human rights abuses in its war on drugs by a “credible and objective investigator”, officials have said, but not an investigation by UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Killings Agnes…