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.
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"Sampayan ng Bayan". During its Third Congress on March 27-28, 2009, members of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan-US Chapter staged protest actions against RP-US Visiting Forces Agreement through a "Sampayan ng Bayan" where a clothesline with painted shirts spelling out "JUNK VFA" was wrapped around General MacArthur's statue in Los Angeles, California. (Photo courtesy of Bayan-US)
CANDLES FOR BILLANES Members of Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment (Kalikasan-PNE) and other multisectoral groups held a candle lighting activity on March 13, 2009 at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani to denounce the increasing number of extrajudicial killings in the country; the most recent was environmentalist and anti-mining activist Eliezer Billanes. (Photo by Kalikasan-PNE)
Goodbye, Rebelyn Thousands joined the funeral march for Rebelyn Pitao, the daughter of a top Communist leader, in Davao City on Saturday. The protesters demanded justice for the schoolteacher, who was brutally murdered allegedly by military agents. (Photo by Barry Ohaylan)
PROTEST OVER REBELYN. Hong Kong human rights groups condemn the abduction, torture, rape and killing of Rebelyn Pitao in a picket protest held on March 11, 2009 at the Philippine Consulate General. (Photo courtesy of BAYAN-Hong Kong)
BERDUGO. Posters accusing the 10th Infantry Division of the Armed Forces of the Philippines as "berdugo" (butcher) are posted in major streets in Davao City. The New People's Army (NPA) accused the 10th ID to be behind the killing of 20-year old Rebelyn Pitao, daughter of NPA rebel leader Leoncio Pitao. (Photo by Ruby Thursday More/AKP Images)
Around 10,000 members of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) gathered at the football field of Agro-Industrial Foundation College of the Philippines in Davao City on Saturday, March 7, 2009 for their 3rd Grand Summit Gathering with MNLF founding chair Prof. Nur Misuari. Some of the MNLF members traveled from as far away as Zamboanga provinces just for the half day gathering. (Photo by Keith Bacongco/AKP Images)
Teachers Demand Better Wages. Dozens of public-school teachers take to the street of Manila to demand better wages. They also criticized a proposed law that would give soldiers better salaries than those in the civilian bureaucracy. (Photo by arkibongbayan.org)
Beach Boy. A taho (soybean custard) vendor plies his trade in a seemingly desolate landscape, which is actually a beach in Opol, Misamis Oriental. (Photo by Ayi Muallam/PinoyPress)
Lumad Protest. Some 200 indigenous peoples coming from different parts of Mindanao staged a protest at the gate of the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ Eastern Mindanao Command in Panacan, Davao City, on Monday, March 2, 2009, to denounce the human-rights abuses allegedly perpetrated by the military in the indigenous communities. They also called for the repeal of the Mining Act. (Photo by Keith Bacongco/AKP Images)
Ban Balikatan. Activists from the group BAN Balikatan in Bicol held protest rallies on Feb. 25 to denounce the holding of the US-Philippine Balikatan exercises in the region. They criticized President Arroyo for being a "puppet" of Washington. (Photo courtesy of arkibongbayan.org)
NO to BNPP. Members of the Network Opposed "NO" to Bataan Nuclear Power Plant Revival ask members of the House of Representatives not to support House Bill 4631 which calls for the revival of the mothballed nuclear plant. Environmental and Civil society groups question the safety of nuclear power plants and instead call for the full implementation of the recently passed Renewable Energy Bill. (Photo by Gigie Cruz/AKP Images)
