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By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Data from the Gabriela Women’s Party show that there is one death every two hours due to complications during pregnancy. Eleven women are dying everyday. Gabriela's landmark bill can provide much needed relief to poverty-stricken women and their families by ensuring full access to health services.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Luz Ilagan expressed disappointment after Malacañang reently announced that it is excluding the Reproductive Health Bill from the list of priority bills for 2011 because it does...
By MARYA SALAMAT
Many hospitals are charging new nurses fees in exchange for work, training and experience, which are required for nursing jobs abroad. This offshoot of the government’s exploitative labor-export policy needs to stop, according to the Gabriela Women’s Party.
Press Release “Perhaps it is not easy to cross the second richest Filipino taipan. But I wonder what P-noy thinks is at stake for him if he, being the President of the Philippines, compels Lucio Tan to respect the Constutionally mandated obligation to “protect the...
Press Release Gabriela Women’s Party Rep.Luz Ilagan early today (Tuesday) paid a visit to one of the Morong detainees, Judilyn Oliveros at the Philippine General Hospital where Oliveros is currently recovering and still under observation for possible complications...
By MARYA SALAMAT
“It is a challenge to the Aquino administration to address the housing question holistically, beyond the low-cost housing projects peddled as the flagship program of the government,” GWP Rep. Emmi de Jesus says.
Members of the women’s groups Gabriela and Gabriela Women’s Party (GWP) picketed the U.S. Embassy in Manila Nov. 5 to condemn the rape of a 22-year-old Filipina in Subic, Zambales (138 kms. north of Manila) by six U.S. Marine servicemen on Nov. 1. They demanded the...
“AES stands for Automated Elections Sabotage,” declared Gabriela Women's Party Representative Luzviminda Ilagan, referring to the technical foul-ups during COMELEC tests of the PCOS machines a mere four days before elections. “It is beyond incompetence. It cannot...
By ZOFIA LEAL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Three local candidates in Ilocos Norte province received letters from anonymous sender last March 24 demonizing Makabayan party senatorial candidates Satur Ocampo and Liza Maza and progressive party list groups. The letter...
News Release 27 March 2010 The militant women's group GABRIELA expressed disgust over the proliferation of fake party lists in this coming May elections. “It is bad enough that the interests of the Filipino masses have long been ignored by a government historically...
NEWS RELEASE March 26, 2010 The militant women's group GABRIELA welcomed the rules on the qualification of candidates for party-list representatives recently issue by the Commission on Elections and called on the poll body to immediately disqualify Mikey Arroyo...
PAGKAIN, TRABAHO, SERBISYONG PANLIPUNAN, MABUTING PAMAMAHALA AT PAYAPANG PAMUMUHAY. Ito ang kagyat na panawagan ng kababaihang Pilipino para sa ating pamilya - sigaw sa gitna ng mga pangako ngayong eleksyon.
News Release 1 March 2010 On March 8, 2010, thousands of women all over the country will take the day off from work, including household chores, to take to the streets and protest the continuing crisis that burdens women and their families. “The worsening economic...
PRESS RELEASE March 1, 2010 Gabriela Women's Party-Southern Tagalog (GWP-ST) joins the rest of the nation in the weeklong campaign to welcome the celebration of the 100th International Women's Day on March 8. A nationally coordinated kick off caravan was held in...
PRESS RELEASE February 27, 2010 Cagayan de Oro City, MISAMIS ORIENTAL – Military men in fulll battle gear have been going from one house to another in different municipalities in Sorsogon City since last week in the pretext of conducting a survey among the...
Text and photos by JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
It is important not to compromise their principles, the two “senatoriables” from the progressie sector said. Since one of their platforms is good governance, part of it is holding public officials -- either past or present -- accountable. This includes achieving justice for the victims of human-rights violations under the Marcos dictatorship.
Philippine elections have always been tainted with fraud, marred by violence, dominated by political dynasties, and characterized by broken promises of politicians. It has never resulted in the betterment of the lives of majority of the Filipino people. But the way...
As Congress opens, the only women’s party-list group in the House of Representatives continues to uphold women’s rights and welfare through legislation. The Gabriela Women’s Party (GWP) shares with Bulatlat its priority bills and resolutions, which include...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat Members of the women's groups GABRIELA and Gabriela Women's Party (GWP) this morning staged a picket at the House of Representatives to protest moves to amend the Constitution. The House Committee on Coonstitutional Amendments...
BY BULATLAT In reaction to Department of Budget and Management Rolando Andaya, Gabriela Women's Party Representative Liza Maza said the global financial crisis and the US recession will have ‘a substantial impact on our economy and on Filipino migrants in the...
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