Lawyers for lawyers
Members of the
Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) said that they are willing to give
legal assistance to the families of slain colleagues who were killed and
harassed by unknown assailants over the past four months.
"We welcome the IBP's
move to provide legal services to the families of slain lawyers and other
legal practicioners who were killed in the course of performing their
duty and exercise of legal profession," Neri Colmenares, Bayan Muna
Party-list legal counsel, said
A team of lawyers will
be sent Nueva Ecija, La Union, Metro Tacloban and other towns where the
ambushes of lawyers took place in the first five months 2005, he added.
Bulatlat
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Migrant
group denounces SA finger-printing
The decision to have
everyone entering Saudi Arabia finger-printed is grossly derogatory to
Filipinos and other nationals.
Migrante Sectoral
Party Chair Connie Bragas-Regalado last week said that this shows a
sweeping generalization that migrant workers who enter Saudi Arabia have
criminal records.
Bragas-Regalado said
that the Philippine government should look after the welfare of Filipinos
who are overstaying, stranded or undocumented in Saudi Arabia who will now
be subjected to inhumane procedures in a sweeping crackdown.
Bulatlat
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KMP opposes coco
fund appointment
Kilusang Magbubukid ng
Pilipinas (KMP, Peasant Movement of the Philippines) last week opposed the
appointment former Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) Chair Danny
Coronacion as the new chief of the Coconut Industry Investment Fund (CIIF).
KMP Deputy
Secretary-General Willy Marbella raised their claim to return the coconut
levy funds to the farmers, not to an appointee of the administration.
"We do not want
another Malacañang appointee who will only tighten Gloria's grip on the
P140-billion ($2.58 billion, based on an exchange rate of P54.20 per U.S.
dollar) coconut levy fund,” Marbella said. Bulatlat
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