An alliance of Filipino migrant rights group in the Middle East today said there are two Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Saudi Arabia who have been accused of illegal drug possession and are now detained in Saudi jail after a Saudi court meted out a verdict of...
Heightened repression still feared after Human Security Act approval Vincent “Ka Bebot Borja”, KMU National Council member representing Eastern Visayas, and also Anakpawis coordinator for that region when he was arrested three years ago, was freed from jail after...
Press Release October 11, 2010 The armed revolutionary forces in Western Samar, like their comrades n Northern Samar, are determined to completely frustrate the AFP’s oordinated military operations that now currently cover the two rovinces— the first military...
Press Release 11 October 2010 An alliance of Filipino migrant rights group in Saudi Arabia today strongly deplores the Philippine Embassy officials for not attending to the request for assistance of two distress and run away OFW beauticians. John Leonard Monterona...
Press Release October 11, 2010 Davao City – Urging Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte to reconsider his support for the coal power plant as proposed by the Aboitizes, the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan warned of more disastrous effects in putting up what is known to be the...
Press Release 11 October 2010 THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE for human rights in the Philippines, Karapatan, assailed the latest Supreme Court (SC) ruling affirming the constitutionality of the Human Security Act of 2007 (Republic Act 9372) as "paving way for more human...
NEWS RELEASE 11 October 2010 GABRIELA Women’s Partylist Representative Luz Ilagan today deplored the Supreme Court decision dismissing the petition to declare the Human Security Act as unconstitutional. “The Supreme Court decision could open a period of...
Press Release 11 October 2010 Environmental groups presented the result of the environmental investigative missions (EIM) which probed the dangers and effects to communities by foreign mining projects in the country. Scientists and representatives from different...
News Release October 11, 2010 The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) today expressed disappointment over a Supreme Court’s dismissal of several petitions assailing the 2007 Human Security Act. The group warned that the SC decision may embolden human...
With yellow euphoria rapidly dissipating, the first 100 days of Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III has clearly been a foray into consolidating for the interests of both foreign monopoly capitalists and the local ruling class of landlords and big bourgeois compradors, and...
Davao City – Following the successful citywide protest led by POWER DABAW against the recently implemented P0.33 power rate increase by the Davao Light and Power Company (DLPC), more protests are set to bombard the company. “We will not stop unless the management...
100% barat sa manggagawa When President Aquino took over as president, our living conditions were evidently at the lowest levels as evinced by an all-time high disparity of wage levels with the cost of living. Government data show that a family in Metro Manila...
6 October 2010 The RP embassy's move of sending a follow-up letter to the Provincial government of Dammam, Eastern region, is an indication that our Embassy officials are having a problem obtaining the police report on the death of OFW Erroy-Ibanez. It could be...
Alejandro Lanaja Command Guerilla Front 3 Operations Command New People’s Army-Southern Mindanao Press Statement 6 October 2010 The 3rd Special Forces Battalion (3rd SF Bn) of the 10th Infantry Division is again weaving a tall tale showing without doubt that the...
Press Statement The National Democratic Front-Eastern Visayas today assailed the regional office of the Commission on Human Rights for participating in a psywar campaign against the NPA after its successful Aug. 21 tactical offensive in Catarman, Northern Samar....
Media Release October 6, 2010 Health groups today trooped to the Department of Justice (DOJ) to cry justice and freedom for their illegally detained colleagues and relatives. They pressed DOJ and Malacañang to hold true to their promise of immediate review of the...
Press Statement 06 September 2010 October 3 – Department of Labor and Employment secretary Rosalinda Baldoz announces that the government will assume jurisdiction over the labor dispute in the Philippine Airlines should mediation talks fail. (Assumption of...
NEWS RELEASE 04 October 2010 “Let the debates, dialogues and consultations on the Reproductive Health Bill as well as on the methods of fertility planning and contraception focus on the needs of the impoverished majority.” Thus said GABRIELA Women’s Partylist...
NEWS RELEASE October 4, 2010 Lawyers’ Group Seriously Studying Having UNHRC Decision Enforced in the Philippines; Vows to Continue Prosecuting HR Cases before national and international bodies. In a press release today, the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL)...
Press Release October 04, 2010 “Mr. President, we are giving you until your 100th day to stop the 1.73 billion maintenance and other operating expenses (MOOE) budget cut to state colleges and universities. If you fail to do so, we can guarantee that the our rage...
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