Philippine groups advocating for tobacco control are firming up activities in the coming weeks, several of which are targeted against a tobacco company for allegedly sponsoring the Eheads concert.
Heto pa ang isang nanggagago.
In her State of the Nation Address on Monday, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo boasted that text messaging in the Philippines now costs only 50 centavos each message sent. She said this was her government’s response to the clamor by poor Filipinos to reduce prices — and text messaging being popular among the [...]
The economist Mrs. Arroyo is trying to cheat the public over the so-called 50 percent reduction in texting rates which she pompously announced in her eighth State of the Nation Address yesterday,
according to consumer group TXTPower.
“The truth is, text messages may already cost less than 50 centavos. The forward march of mobile technology and the [...]
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, an international anti-smoking group, has likewise praised singer Alicia Keys for forcing ****** to withdrawal as sponsor of her concert in Indonesia.
They owe the public and their fans at least that. If they can’t, and there’s no logical or reasonable reason why they can’t, that would be irrefutable proof of their complicity in this deception. And there goes their legacy.
Pulling a 21-foot effigy of a sinking ship, members of the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan marched from Tandang Sora Avenue to just beyond EVER Commonwealth to join other anti-Arroyo groups in a “People’s SONA”. The counter-SONA described the state of the nation as “a sinking ship with the captain even robbing its passengers”.
New studies by the University of the Philippines - Center for Labor Justice (UP CLJ) and the Bangkok and Manila-based policy think tank Focus on the Global South revealed
Arroyo’s slow progress towards achieving key targets on economic growth, poverty reduction, and job generation.
In a statement, the NUPL says it “strongly criticizes the recent spate of decisions by the Court of Appeals dismissing amparo petitions which are indicative of a failure to comprehend the intent and nature of the new judicial remedy that initially brought a ray of hope for the victims, families and human rights defenders. These decisions unfortunately disregard the actual state of human rights in the Philippines today that has prompted the promulgation of the new remedy in the first place.”
According to the July 2008 results of the IBON survey, 83.3% of residents in the National Capital Region believe that the government will not deliver on the commitments that Pres. Arroyo will make in her SONA. Only 5.9% said yes.
In a metro-wide survey conducted by IBON Foundation on July 12-13, 87.33% of respondents agree with the proposals to scrap the VAT on petroleum products.
PRESS STATEMENT 26 July 2008
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A PRO-POOR SONA MUST INCLUDE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND POPULATION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
We challenge President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to take a stand and finally pronounce a clear and comprehensive national reproductive health and [...]
A health alliance today hits the use of a descriptors in cigarette packages, saying such mislead the public, especially the young people, in believing that a cigarette could be “mild” or “light” in its ill-effects on one’s health.
Dr Maricar Limpin of the tobacco control advocacy group Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Alliance-Philippines (FCAP) in a [...]
Reminiscent of the House deliberation on the Cheaper Medicines bill, the health alliance against smoking, in a statement today says, some legislators are trying to delay the passage of the public health legislation on tobacco regulation by using the quorum issue during the committee hearing Tuesday.
Ifugao Rep. Solomon R. Chungalao threatened to question the quorum [...]
The truth could never be more damning: Smoking is the world’s leading preventable cause of death today. So, for the tobacco industry to survive, it has to replace smokers it kills or those who quit. This it does by hooking new customers—often targeting teenagers and young adults. Unless urgent measures are [...]
July 1 marks deadline for tobacco ads
An advertising executive and at the same time, a tobacco control advocate calls on the tobacco industry, the local government units, and those involved in tobacco advertising, to stop tobacco advertising immediately as the July 1 deadline on tobacco ad approaches.
“In light of the tobacco ad ban provided in [...]
By Fr. Shay Cullen
The selfless commitment Christians of all denominations to live, risk their lives and suffer for the gospel values, human rights and to live out the mission of Jesus Christ to save the poor and the oppressed from pain and exploitation inflicted on them by the irresponsible rich and powerful, is at the [...]
The Philippine Human Rights Reporting Project through journalist Vincent Sawabi listened to different voices in Sulu – the young and old, the politicized and otherwise, the believer and the cynical – on the impact of the recent kidnapping to their province and to their lives. Listen to know if peace will remain elusive to their island, once known for its bountiful natural riches and culture.
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