Lawyers should now go on strike to demand concrete actions from the government, particularly the Supreme Court, to address killings in the legal profession and other abuses, a human rights lawyer said on Tuesday, March 9.a news conferenceThe conference featured the counsels of anti-terror law petitioners, with a statement signed by former Supreme Court justices Antonio Carpio and Conchita Carpio Morales.
"We urge members of the legal profession and various law groups to launch a more active response to these attacks including complaints in United Nations mechanisms against these attacks," the statement added.killed since President Rodrigo Duterte took office, but some groups such as the Free Legal Assistance Group has pegged the number at 61.
"Sa ngayon ang sinasabi at least 54 recorded killings na wala pang naso-solve, 'yun ang masaklap dun, wala pang nakukulong, pero hindi pa umaalsa ang legal profession. Agree ako dapat tipping point na ito,"The last lawyers march in the countrywhen the IBP led a march to EDSA shrine to condemn Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's Proclamation No. 1017, seen then as a crackdown on dissent.
There has been little accountability for killings of other professionals, e.g. journalists, and relatively little public outcry and action. Now it is spreading, and still relatively little action. I do hope it mustn’t spread to even more groups before something is done.