Facts-

• Human rights abuses continue to occur un-investigated in the Philippines.
• Since President Gloria Arroyo took power in 2001 over 700 politically motivated killings appear to have been executed by Filipino security forces.
• The common link between those targeted: all have spoken out against human rights abuses and corruption in the Philippines.
• In the last two years 15 members and ministers of the United Church of Christ of the Philippines have been murdered in circumstances suggesting the involvement of the security forces of the Philippines.
• None of these 15 cases have been fully investigated and the perpetrators brought to justice!

For more information and cases, download the Uniting Church in Australia's report Getting Away with Murder - Impunity for those Targeting Church Workers in the Philippines launched on August 16th at Parliament House, Canberra.

Our challenge to you
Send a sympathy card to the President of the Philippines, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, expressing your deepest sympathies towards the unresolved killings of 15 church workers. Feel free to make or purchase your sympathy card, be as creative as you like! There is also a sympathy card available to be downloaded here, for you to print off and write your own message in.

Send your card to Kerryn Clarke and we will send them all together to Minister Downer. Please post all cards to

Kerryn Clarke
JustAct
130 Little Collins Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
by Monday 4th September.

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Downloads: Sympathy Card to Filipino President | Sympathy Card to Filipino President (Large)

more info: Uniting Church Just Actions website | Union Solidarity statement about killings