Day: March 7, 2011

By ALMA B. SINUMLAG Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY – Indigenous peoples’ (IP) partylist Katribu challenged the peace negotiating panels of both parties to look into the violations of IP rights. In an interview, Katribu partylist president Beverly Longid said there were a lot of positive points tackled in the formal talks between the Government of…

By ALMA B. SINUMLAG Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY – Local artists here welcome Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño’s bill aiming to provide tax exemptions and subsidies for the local music industry. The House Bill 3787 states that all operas, concerts, dramas, recitals, painting and art exhibitions, flower shows, musical programs, literary and oratorical presentations, including…

March 7, 2011 PRESS RELEASE Youth group Anakbayan today assailed the Aquino government’s Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects, saying the “sell-out” of social services will mean higher prices of utilities and commodities, and will cause deeper poverty for majority of the people. “It will mean guaranteed profits for people of the same class as the…

PRESS RELEASE March 7, 2011 Youth group Anakbayan today joined other groups in calling for the resignation of Energy Secretary Rene Almendras, while dismissing those who defended the latter as ‘sympathetic to their fellow incompetent’. “Yet again, Almendras and the rest of the pro-oil cartel Aquino administration is missing the point: the issue is not…

March 7, 2011 PRESS RELEASE DAVAO CITY – One question for the President: Where’s the ‘Matuwid na Daan?’. This as more than a thousand women are set to join on the centennial commemoration of the International Working Women’s Day led by militant and progressive women’s organization, GABRIELA, in the city on March 8. According to…

NEWS RELEASE 7 March 2011 A labor NGO urged today the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to take necessary measures in addressing the “multiple subcontracting chains” which continue to exist in Eton Residences, forty days after the tragedy in the construction site of the condominium wherein 10 workers were killed. Ecumenical Institute for Labor…

By RONALYN V. OLEA
Karapatan has documented 40 victims of extrajudicial killings since Aquino took office at a rate of one victim of extrajudicial killing per week. The group, together with other human rights advocates, will call the attention of the United Nations Human Rights Council on this issue.