Ampatuan Massacre, A Year After
Day: November 24, 2010
Lepanto updates: Lepanto Workers to receive unpaid wages but union busting not resolved
News release November 24, 2010 On the second conciliation meeting on the notice of strike filed by the workers, the Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company agrees to pay all monetary claims before end this month. These are, however, the claims specified in the preventive mediation case filed by the workers’ unions 2 years ago. This claims…
Government Must Give Full Support to all Florences-Gabriela
PRESS RELEASE NOVEMBER 24, 2010 DAVAO CITY – In time for the commemoration of the International Day of Protest on Violence Against Women, GABRIELA urged the government to show the same, if not more, support it gave to Florence, the volunteer nurse who was a victim of rape in Maguindanao, to other rape victims in…
Saudi authorities intensify crackdown, 27 undocumented OFWs nabbed among other nationalities
Press Release 24 November 2010 As the Saudi government intensified its crackdown campaign against overstaying and undocumented migrant workers, an alliance of Filipino migrants right group in the Middle East today said there are already 27 undocumented overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) that have been apprehended since yesterday night. Disclaimer | What you are reading is…
SUCs and students call on senators to stop SUC budget cut
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NOVEMBER 24, 2010 Administrators and student leaders from different State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) nationwide trooped to the Senate today and urged senators to stop the SUC budget cut and prioritize education. This, as more than a hundred student groups, faculty associations and administrations from SUCs nationwide call to strike tomorrow and…
Aquino slammed for pro-CAFGU position
News Release November 24, 2010 When will government learn its lesson? This was the question asked by the umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan in reaction to statements by Philippine president Benigno Aquino III that his government will not dismantle paramilitary units and militias despite abuses. Paramilitary groups and militias have been implicated in the Ampatuan,…
Palace asked to release DOJ review of Morong 43 case
News Release November 24, 2010 The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan today called on Malacanang to make public the review conducted by the Department of Justice on the case of the Morong 43. The confidential review, which was in fact a reinvestigation of the case, was submitted by Justice Secretary Leila de Lima in October…
[Audio] Family Undaunted in Search for 58th Ampatuan Victim
Family Undaunted in Search for 58th Ampatuan Victim
Military, Police Raid Office of Progressive Organizations in Camarines Sur, Four Arrested
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“With the raid of the office of progressive organizations by combined elements of police and military in Daet, Camarines Sur and the subsequent arrest of four activists, the Morong 43 template is now being replicated.” — Karapatan
News in Pictures: Thousands Flock to Ampatuan, Maguindanao, to Pay Tribute, Demand Justice for Victims of Massacre
AMPATUAN, Maguindanao — Marking the first year since the massacre of 58 people in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao, thousands troop to Sitio Masalay, Barangay Salman, to pay tribute and demand justice for the victims. The families of the victims offered flowers, candles and prayers and demand for the speedy resolution of the case. The families were joined by various human-rights and media groups led by Alliance Against Impunity in Mindanao, InPeace Mindanao, Union of Peoples’ Lawyers in Mindanao, National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers and National Union of Journalists of the Philippines.