Archive for February, 2008
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More pictures of anti-Arroyo rally
Two former presidents – Corazon Aquino, who led the first People Power in 1986, and Joseph Estrada, who was ousted in the second People Power in 2001 – joined priests, nuns, farmers, activists and students in a march in Makati City.
(Geneva, February 28, 2008) –The United Nations and its member states are failing to address serious threats to life and health posed by the promotion of unproven AIDS “cures” and by counterfeit antiretroviral drugs, Human Rights Watch said today.
In an article published yesterday, “Dangerous medicines: Unproven AIDS cures and counterfeit antiretroviral drugs,” in the peer-reviewed [...]
Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) today expressed confidence that the Makati mobilization will send a very strong message to Malacañang and other institutions of the government that the Filipino people seriously and urgently demand for truth, justice, and meaningful changes in the leadership and system of governance amid the latest political crisis that has been rocking the Arroyo regime.
In aide memoire submitted to the UN Human Rights Council, a network of human-rights groups in Germany says that “while the Philippines are state party to most of the important UN human rights conventions and treaties, their implementation is not a policy priority.”
MANILA – Legal experts and press freedom advocates from Asia, Europe, the US, and from as far as Latin America are flying into Manila this week to help find solutions to a long-festering crisis in the Philippines: the unabated and unsolved killing of journalists throughout the country.
Prosecutors, judges, human rights advocates and even high-level justices [...]
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is very concerned about the increasing obstacles to press freedom and diversity of information in Nepal as news outlets and journalists come under violent attack and editors in the Terai region close 18 daily and weekly newspapers due to a shortage of supplies.
According to the Federation of Nepali Journalists [...]
First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo was confined at St. Luke’s Hospital from December 1 to December 5, 2006, during which he underwent a life-threatening coronary angioplasty operation.
This is a fact well-reported by media and a fact attested to by St. Luke’s itself in a certification issued by Ms. Sonia Hanopol, department manager of the hospital’s [...]
Says it will not derail the people’s growing struggle to make Arroyo accountable for her lies and crimes
Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) described today as “absurd” and “misleading” the call of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) for Ms. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to “take the lead in combating corruption”.
The multisectoral alliance said that while it [...]
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) welcomes a commitment by East Timor’s Government to ensure attacks on the media, such as a military police assault on a staff member of the East Timor Post at the weekend, do not occur again.
Senior layout editor Agustinho Ta Pasea suffered cuts and bruises to his face after being [...]
The International Federation of Journalists has learnt from affiliate organisations in the north-eastern Indian state of Tripura of the harassment of two senior journalists, by elements of the armed police force assigned to special security duties and anti-insurgency operations.
According to reports received by the IFJ, Pradip Datta Bhaumik and Pranmoy Saha from the mass-circulation Bengali [...]
“I note with sadness that President Arroyo and the First Family were never sincere in pushing for the merger of LAKAS-CMD and KAMPI. She appeared to agree to the merger only when she needed our Party’s support. Now that she is facing another crisis, there is again this talk of merger.”
Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna party-list Satur C. Ocampo today said that more damning evidence on the multi-million dollar National Broadband Network – ZTE scandal directly pointing to President Macapagal-Arroyo and First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo are emerging one-by-one.
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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