Press Statement 06 December 2010 Four days prior to the observance of the International Human Rights Day, relatives and supporters of the Morong 43 renewed their call for the immediate withdrawal of all cases filed against the incarcerated health workers in Camp...
Press Statement 06 December 2010 MAKABAYAN demands the immediate and unconditional release of the 43 volunteer doctors, midwives and community health workers now in the 3rd day of hunger strike to protest their unjust arrest and detention. “Why does President...
Press Release 06 December 2010 We condemn Armed Forces of the Philippines spokesperson Col. Antonio Parlade Jr.’s statement that National Democratic Front chief negotiator Luis Jalandoni’s call for the release of the Morong 43 is an “affirmation” that the health...
Press Statement 5 December 2010 As the 2011 proposed national budget nears its finality tomorrow with the Bicameral Conference Committee (BCC) meeting of the Senate and the Congress, youth representative Raymond ‘Mong’ Palatino of Kabataan Party-list today said...
Press Statement 6 December 2010 President Aquino, who was elected for his “matuwid na landas” campaign slogan, has the moral obligation to correct the wrongs and injustices committed by the past two administrations of Estrada and Arroyo against the Moro people....
PRESS RELEASE 26 November 2010 An independent citizen-based fact-finding mission, endorsed by the family of the country's top botanist, the late Leonardo Co, and led by the Justice for Leonardo Co Movement, sets off for Kananga, Leyte, today to probe the real cause...
News release November 24, 2010 On the second conciliation meeting on the notice of strike filed by the workers, the Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company agrees to pay all monetary claims before end this month. These are, however, the claims specified in the...
PRESS RELEASE NOVEMBER 24, 2010 DAVAO CITY – In time for the commemoration of the International Day of Protest on Violence Against Women, GABRIELA urged the government to show the same, if not more, support it gave to Florence, the volunteer nurse who was a victim...
Press Release 24 November 2010 As the Saudi government intensified its crackdown campaign against overstaying and undocumented migrant workers, an alliance of Filipino migrants right group in the Middle East today said there are already 27 undocumented overseas...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NOVEMBER 24, 2010 Administrators and student leaders from different State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) nationwide trooped to the Senate today and urged senators to stop the SUC budget cut and prioritize education. This, as more than a...
News Release November 24, 2010 When will government learn its lesson? This was the question asked by the umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan in reaction to statements by Philippine president Benigno Aquino III that his government will not dismantle...
News Release November 24, 2010 The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan today called on Malacanang to make public the review conducted by the Department of Justice on the case of the Morong 43. The confidential review, which was in fact a reinvestigation of...
Press Statement November 23, 2010 We in the Union of Peoples’ Lawyers in Mindanao continue to grieve with the families of victims of the Ampatuan Massacre which has included our own colleagues Concepcion Brizuela and Cynthia Oquendo. One year after, we find it...
Press Release 23 November 2010 AS THE NATION commemorates the first anniversary of the November 23 Ampatuan Massacre in Maguindanao, the national alliance of human rights groups, KARAPATAN, called for the dismantling of the Citizen's Armed Force Geographical Units...
NEWS RELEASE November 22, 2010 In commemoration of the first anniversary of Maguindanao Massacre, Bayan-NCR tells PNoy, ‘Walk the talk!’ Militants disappointed over Aquino’s tolerance of paramilitary groups; Mere remembering the massacre will never be enough. This...
NEWS RELEASE November 23, 2010 IN COMMEMORATION OF THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE MAGUINDANAO MASSACRE In commemoration of the first year anniversary of the Maguindanao Massacre, the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) joins the nation and the international...
Alliance against Impunity in Mindanao November 23, 2010: Year One of the Ampatuan Massacre RAGE FOR JUSTICE! END IMPUNITY NOW! WE remember … This day, we remember the 58 lives--- the 32 journalists, two human rights lawyers, and other civilians--- lost on November...
News Release November 23, 2010 GENERAL SANTOS CITY-- Families of victims of extrajudicial killings and other human rights violations under the banner of Hustisya! (Unity for Justice) expressed solidarity to the families of the Ampatuan massacre victims as they...
News Release November 23, 2010 Umbrella organization Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) will join different groups in a march to Mendiola today November 23 to commemorate the Maguindanao massacre and call for justice for the 58 victims of the “worst...
2010 November 23 PRESS STATEMENT The members of the College Editors Guild of the Philippines deeply condemn the Maguindanao Massaacre as it counts one complete year this November 23. A year after the gruesome massacre, no one has still been held accountable over...
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