Archive for November, 2007
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Sri Lanka: Air strike on radio station condemned
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the bombing of the Voice of Tigers (VOT), the official radio station of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), near Ki’linochchi, in Sri Lanka’s Northern Province of Vinni, on November 27.
JOINT STATEMENT
November 28, 2007
The report of United Nations Human Rights Commission Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions Philip Alston is an affirmation of our long standing position that the intensified extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances in the country, since 2001 emanates from the highest level of state policy on counter-insurgency.
MANILA — Various groups led by former Vice President Teofisto Guingona, Jr. are expected to converge at the Liwasang Bonifacio and march to Mendiola on November 30, Friday, the birth anniversary of Filipino revolutionary Andres Bonifacio. Organizers say that the rally will come out with the call for the “rejection of a morally bankrupt government.”
Among [...]
Pharmaceutical industry undermines its own future as millions of poor
people denied access to medicines
MANILA, Philippines — The pharmaceutical industry is denying medicines to millions of poor
people and undermining its own future because companies refuse to
shift to responsible business practice in developing country such as
the Philippines, according to a report by international agency Oxfam.
Oxfam publishes its [...]
By Renato M. Reyes, Jr.
MANILA — There are no if’s and but’s about it.
The final report of United Nations Special Rapporteur Philip Alston on the extrajudicial killings in the Philippines clearly points to a national policy of the Arroyo administration through its Armed Forces of the Philippines and other agencies such as the Inter-agency Legal [...]
Some 2,000 farmers who gathered yesterday at the House of Representatives to push for the extension of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) slammed Rep. Ignacio “Iggy” Arroyo and the big landowners of Negros Occidental for alleged efforts to derail the implementation of the program.
Greenpeace ‘green electronics guide’ now also lists TVs
Manila/Amsterdam, 28 November 2007–Game consoles are among the least
environment-friendly electronic gadgets, Greenpeace revealed today with
the release of the 6th edition of the Greenpeace Guide to Greener
Electronics. The Guide, first launched in August 2006 and rates PC and
mobile phone manufacturers on their environmental practices, has been
expanded this month to [...]
CMFR/Philippines—One of the two suspects in the 2001 killing of Aklan journalist Rolando Ureta was arrested at 7:45 am in front of the municipal hall in Numancia, Aklan on November 27. Aklan is a province approximately 345 km south of Manila.
LAWYERS CONDEMN SHAM IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS:
Compare proceedings with the first Aquino-Galman Case
“The Justices and judges must ever realize that they have no constituency, serve no majority nor minority but serve only the public interest as they see it in accordance with their oath of office, guided only [...]
Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna Rep. Satur C. Ocampo today strongly an assassination attempt on Bayan Muna regional officer Hope Hervilla in Iloilo, yesterday, November 26. He warned state security forces that they would be held responsible should any harm were inflicted on Hervilla.
MANILA, Philippines — Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna Rep. Satur C. Ocampo today strongly condemned the arrest of ten peasant activists and a nine-month old baby in Cebu on November 18. He called for the victims’ immediate release and congressional probe on the incident.
Greenpeace demands clean water for all
Manila, 27 November 2007–Greenpeace water patrol activists today
deposited thirty ‘blue babies’ at the doorsteps of the Department of
Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to highlight the urgency of
protecting the country’s dwindling clean water resources from
continuing toxics pollution.
Geneva, Switzerland- Leaders of Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) and Karapatan together with relatives of victims of enforced disappearances held a dialogue with the United Nations Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearance (WGEID) here to urge them to come to the Philippines and investigate the increased incidence of the enforced disappearances under the Macapagal-Arroyo [...]
MANILA — The Philippine Embassy in Moscow reported to the Department of Foreign Affairs that the Philippines has emerged as the leading country for investment for mobile operators in the world for the period 2008-2012, based on survey results for the first half of 2007, recently released by the telecommunications arm of one of Russia’s [...]
AN official of the Department of Agriculture (DA) on Monday cited biotechnology as the key to the country’s survival during these crucial times when the country is threatened by unfavorable weather conditions such as drought and super typhoons that can adversely affect agricultural production.
Reds seek activation of NPA hit squads in cities After Ampatuan Massacre, 2009 a Record Year for Journalist Killings Worldwide CHR to military: Respect and protect human rights during martial law in Maguindanao Maguindanao, its political elite and a culture subservient to corruption U.S. Must Improve Responsiveness to Mass Atrocities; Absent UN Action, Make Clear Willingness to Act on Its Own, Says New CFR Report Martial law dilutes the Philippines’s human rights and democratic gains Martial law in Maguindanao sets ‘most dangerous precedent’ Lawyers will wear black armbands, ribbons in courts Law group shall file plunder cases against President Arroyo et al. UN Experts: Maguindanao massacre must be the start of a major reform process
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