NEWS RELEASE June 9, 2010 DAVAO CITY – An alliance of church leaders called on the military’s 10th Infantry Division to cease its military operations to pave the way for the safety release of four soldiers who were held captive by the New People’s Army (NPA) since last month. Bishop Emeritus Constante Claro of the…
Day: June 9, 2010
Environmental and indigenous peoples groups denounce Arroyo’s midnight mining deals
Press Release Progressive environmental group Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment voiced out worry over a number of mining projects that are being negotiated and given the go signal to operate on the remaining days of President Arroyo in office. The midnight deals cited by the groups are the Canadian nickel miner MBMI Resources Inc.…
Bayan: P10-M budget to showcase Arroyo ‘achievements’ a waste of funds
News Release June 9, 2010 The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) today said the P10-million budget allocation for the government’s celebration of Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s nine-year legacy as president will only amount to a big waste of public funds. To serve as the program’s highlight is a parade of 10 floats representing the supposed…
The Case of the Morong 43: emblematic of systemic and systematic human rights violations in the Philippines which are bred by social conditions
Geneva– The Morong 43 case is emblematic of the human rights violations occurring in the Philippines. The plethora of violations at every step of the way, the various legal shortcuts, the brazen abuse or total disregard of the law and the deliberate attempts to escape accountability are conclusive evidences of so much impunity in the…
Sex and the City 2, Looking Beyond the Glitz and the Glamour
By JENNIFER CHAN Bulatlat.com I know there are a lot of negative reviews about Sex and the City 2 out there but here’s one that isn’t. Despite what other people say about SATC not having a plot, I think otherwise. When I entered the theater, I was prepared to see nothing but extravagance, extravagance, extravagance!…
Statement on the Aquino-Binay proclamation
PRESS STATEMENT June 9, 2010 On the occasion of the proclamation of President Benigno Aquino III and Vice-President Jejomar Binay, the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan joins the collective aspiration of the Filipino people that the new government will be a departure from the failed regime of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. There are high public expectations for the…
Armed Forces of the Philippines the biggest violator of children’s rights
PRESS RELEASE Information Bureau Communist Party of the Philippines The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today said claims of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) that the New People’s Army (NPA) recruits children are “completely unfounded and are only desperate attempts to tarnish the image of the NPA before the public and the…
World Council of Churches to continue monitoring the HR situation in the Philippines; expresses deep concern and solidarity with Morong 43 Health Workers
PRESS RELEASE 07 JUNE 2010 GENEVA – In a clear signal of continuing solidarity with the churches and human rights defenders in the Philippines, the World Council of Churches through its Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA-WCC) invited the delegation of the Ecumenical Voice for Peace and Human Rights in the Philippines (EVPHRP)…
Measly P22 wage hike bodes stronger push for P125 natiowide hike
The recently-approved P22 increase in the minimum wage only in Metro Manila will push workers to fight for a legislated P125 across-the-board nationwide wage hike, labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno said today. “Once again, we workers have seen the folly of filing petitions for minimum wage increases in regional wage boards. We’ve said it before…
Teachers Group Calls on incoming Government to address Education Woes
Press Release 8 June 2010 Teachers group Educators for Development (EfD) calls on the incoming administration to give more priority to education as the 2010-2011 school year starts this month with the education sector in decline and persistently neglected. According to EfD, the Arroyo administration has given lowest priority to education in the national budget…