Archive for April, 2008
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Migrante Cries for Justice for Murdered Pinay, Blames Arroyo for ‘Criminal Neglect’ of OFWs
MIGRANTE-Japan condemns the gruesome murder of Honiefaith Ratilla Kamiosawa, a 22-year old Filipina whose body was found mutilated in an apartment located in Tokyo’s Minato district on April 4, 2008. We demand that justice be served for the victim and her family.
Only recently, another Filipina was murdered by her Japanese husband along with the couple’s [...]
Flooding the market with imported rice could lower local prices but it could also depress farm gate prices. In effect, the President has imposed a disincentive to rice producers.
The chairman of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines
(NDFP) Human Rights Monitoring Committee Fidel V. Agcaoili today
expressed outrage over the appointment of Executive Secretary Eduardo
Ermita as head of the GRP 44-team delegation to the United Nations
Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on April
11.
Agcaoili said that Ermita’s record as the US pointguard and [...]
MANILA, PHILIPPINES – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has launched Strategy 2020, a new long-term strategy for its vision of an Asia and Pacific region free of poverty.
To fight poverty in a region of more than 600 million poor people surviving on $1 a day, Strategy 2020 will refocus ADB operations on three development agendas—inclusive [...]
Two schools will offer a biotechnology course in the coming semester, following the path taken by the National Institute for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (NIMBB) in UP Diliman.
The Cavite State University (CSU) and University of Southern Mindanao (USM) will begin offering 3 units of biotechnology courses to college students next semester.
It was UP-NIMBB that pioneered [...]
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is extremely concerned for the safety of a Palawan journalist who received death threats on his cellular phone on April 4.
According to the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), an IFJ affiliate, a correspondent of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Redempto Anda, fears for his life after receiving [...]
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is alarmed that a Bangladeshi journalist who has reported extensively on alleged police corruption was wrongfully detained by police and accused of robbery.
Rabiul Islam, a journalist for The Daily Sunshine, a Rajshahi-based newspaper in the Bangla language, has written several reports implicating the Durgapur police force in alleged corruption [...]
Report on Extrajudicial Killings and Enforced Disappearances in the Philippines
Fact Finding Mission of Human Rights Now to Philippines
Human Rights Now
April 2008
Summary
In the Philippines, hundreds of social activists and human rights defenders have been unlawfully killed as well as subjected to enforced disappearances since [...]
“The consumers should not be left at the mercy of the free market. There should be at least some protection from skyrocketing prices during these times of crisis.”
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Nene” Q. Pimentel,
Jr. (PDP-Laban) today said the Commission on Elections
should exhaust all efforts to automate the elections
in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao in August
this year because it is an important step toward the
computerization of the 2010 national and local
elections when the next president will be elected into
office.
He said he was [...]
TAMED EDITION. The Catholic Church and some “guardians of public morals” are up in arms over the Philippine edition of Playboy magazine, whose first issue came out this week. But they have been largely silent on the existing sex magazines that are way raunchier than Playboy, such as Playhouse magazine (right) published by Atlas Publishing, [...]
The press is accused of being selective in its application of journalistic ethics and the legal principles surrounding libel and defamation. Is the mainstream press, the allegation goes, too careful (or too afraid?) in Gorrell’s case because those whom he accused of various sins and malfeasance are powerful and famous people – people who have the means to haul journalists off to court?
Airing on April 7, 2008, Monday late night after Saksi
In the most recent sanitation survey of the Department of Health, a huge chunk of our population still lacks a very important facility in their homes: the comfort room!
But what’s more surprising is this: majority of residents even in developed urban areas still do not have [...]
Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-070-2008
3 April 2008
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PHILIPPINES: Sick boy dies after being punished by teacher
ISSUES: Torture; corporal punishment; students; child abuse; child
rights
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Dear friends,
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a
14-year-old boy who was recovering from typhus, has died after having
been punished by his teacher for failing to do his homework. The boy
and [...]
A Palawan-based journalist was threatened with death on 3 April 2008 after he wrote that a mining company was blocking plans to declare a forest in Brooke’s Point, Palawan as a protected area. Palawan is an island southwest of Manila.
Redempto Anda, a Philippine Daily Inquirer correspondent and an editor for the local newspaper Palawan Star, [...]
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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