2010 report on human rights by Amnesty International

Just got a copy of the Amnesty International 2010 report which contain relevant data for the year 2009 and found the following reports that concern the Philippines (aside from the report on the country itself which is shamefully very bad). I am sure there are more human rights violations experienced especially by Filipino migrant workers abroad that did not make it to the report:

(The report for the Philippines is shown below. A more complete report for the country can be obtained from Karapatan's 2009 year-end report whose cover is shown to the right.)

Japan
Under Refugees and asylum-seekers: In April, the government deported Filipino nationals Arlan and Sarah Calderon because of their irregular status, separating themfromtheir 13-year-old daughter, Noriko Calderon. TheMinistry of Justice gave Noriko Calderon, who was born in Japan and speaks only Japanese, a choice of returning to the Philippines with her parents or remaining in Japan alone.

Kuwait
Under Migrants' rights: In March, a Filipina domestic worker was reported to have been hospitalized after she was raped and repeatedly assaulted; the police rejected her employers’ allegation that she had attempted suicide.

Under Death penalty: At least three people were sentenced to death for murder; no executions were reported.

May Membriri Vecina, a Filipina domestic worker, returned to the Philippines in June following a pardon by the Amir. She had been sentenced to death in July 2007 after being convicted of murdering her employer’s youngest child. At her trial, she alleged that her employer had physically and mentally abused her, causing her to become mentally ill. Her sentence had been commuted to life imprisonment in June2008.


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A very similar method was used to generate the following images:

Correlations between clustered voting precincts

Makikita sa graph na ito kung gaano kapareho ang pagpili ng mga senador sa magkaibang lugar sa bansa. Base ito sa actual na bilang ng COMELEC. Labing-apat na clustered precincts lamang mula sa magkaibang rehiyon ang kinumpara.

Ang ibig sabihin ng hugis na pinapakita sa graph ay ganito: ang senador na malakas sa precinct x ay malakas din sa precinct y. Ang bawat linya (trendline) ay sinadyang pinadaan sa origin na ang ibig sabihin ay kung zero ka sa precinct x ay malamang zero ka din sa precinct y, at mukhang ganito naman talaga ang trend.

Heto ang paliwanag kung paano ginawa ang graph. I-plot ang porsyentong nakuha ng isang kandidato sa isang clustered na presinto versus sa porsyentong kanyang nakuha sa ibang clustered na presinto. Gawin ito sa lahat ng kandidato sa pagkasenador sa parehong dalawang presinto para makumpara ang pagboto sa dalawang presinto na ito. Kalkulahin ang slope ng best-fit line at coefficient of determination para sa plot na ito. Gawin ito sa iba pang pares ng clustered na presinto.

Heto naman ang mga clustered na presintong (CP) kinumpara sa plot sa taas. Manual random lang ang pagpili sa mga presintong ito mula sa iba't ibang rehiyon:
x = Matuguinao CP1
y = Panabo City CP105
a = Cagayan de Oro City CP115
b = Pasay City CP11
c = Laoag City CP13
d = San Carlos City CP11
e = Ilagan CP114
f = San Jose Del Monte City CP10
g = Bacoor CP107
h = Calapan CP22
i = Ipil CP1
j = Legazpi City CP99
k = Tangalan CP7
l = Siquijor CP29

BONUS
If you want to analyze the data, you can download all results into your computer using this crude program and do the analysis offline.

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