By the WOMEN’s Movement for Arroyo’s Resignation and Regime Change Bulatlat.com We, women, who have gathered here today, call on Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to step down. Emerging from our homes, schools, workplaces and communities, we lend our voices to the thundering call for the immediate resignation of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Today, we forge our unity against a…
Category: Women & Children
Feminist activist, writer Ninotchka Rosca: RP Is Major Exporter of Sex Slaves
“The sex trade and trafficking of women and children is tantamount to virtual slavery, an act of violence and a grave violation of the fundamental tenets of human rights and the guarantees enshrined in the UN Charter of Rights and Freedoms.” – Ninotchka Rosca By Edwin C. Mercurio Bulatlat.com TORONTO, Canada – The Philippine government’s…
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Court denies mother’s plea for sick child Zenaida Llesis, the 46-year old political detainee who gave birth to a girl at the Bukidnon Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center last year, went on hunger strike last Jan. 20. Llesis, who has been detained since Aug. 2002 for being an New People’s Army (NPA) suspect, took the…
Electoral Firsts: Militant political parties vie for more House seats
For the militant cause-oriented movement, 2004 is not just an election year; it is also a year of “firsts” related to its entry into the electoral struggle. It will be fielding up to 20 nominees from Bayan Muna and five other new Party-list groups for House seats. By Alexander Martin Remollino Bulatlat.com For the militant…
Mindanao’s Child Evacuees Send Arroyo Messages of Hope
“Mrs. President, we want to go back to our homes so that we can study well and support you. We have suffered enough.” This is just one of the messages scribbled in home-made cards that Mindanao’s child evacuees hope would get the attention of the new administration. By JOWEL F. CANUDAY Bulatlat.com PARANG, Maguindanao– If…