The biggest alliance of Filipino migrant organizations lambasted OWWA Administrator Carmelita Dimzon for pinning hopes on US President Obama to solve the retrenchments caused by the global financial crisis.
“No wonder distressed OFWs find it very difficult to get their benefits from OWWA. No less than the OWWA administrator herself is spending more time daydreaming rather than earning her keep. We …

Attorney Clara Rita A. Padilla, Executive Director of EnGendeRights, hails U.S. President Obama’s act last Friday, January 23, in rescinding the Global Gag Rule. Under the policy, organizations that received USAID funding were prohibited from using their own funds to advocate for safe and legal abortion and provide for life-saving safe abortions services.
Atty. Padilla said, “The rescission works towards …

The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan today said that the only things Obama can learn from Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is how to use power to “lie, cheat, steal and suppress your enemies.”
This was the militant group’s response to claims by Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita that “If there’s anything to learn, it would be President Obama learning from President …

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After Barack Hussein Obama said “so help me God,” I went outside to check if the earth had been rent asunder, trees had fallen, buildings had sat on themselves and the sky had cracked open.

The incoming Obama administration will need to put human rights at the heart of foreign, domestic, and security policy if it is to undo the enormous damage of the Bush years, Human Rights Watch said today in issuing its World Report 2009.

Advisors to both McCain and Obama share their candidates’ views on issues ranging from regional economic integration and free trade agreements to U.S. relations with Asia’s Muslims, the Six-Party Talks, and relations with China, Japan and South Korea.