The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights finds the recent report of the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR) to the Philippines issued on February 24 a cause of serious concern. In its report: "The Committee once...
(Bulatlat.com) It is not the absence of laws, but the incompetence of Comelec officials that has resulted in the entry of spurious partylist groups in the May 10 elections. This was the analysis of the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (New Patriotic Alliance) as it vowed...
News Release March 24, 2010 In a public dialogue with Kabataan Partylist Rep. Raymond Palatino held in the rally of Iskolars ng Bayan from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) and University of the Philippines (UP) against tuition hikes this...
Press Statement 24 March 2010 When laws are used to subvert justice, what is left for the people to do? The decision of the Court of Appeals Special Division of Five to dismiss the Writ of Habeas Corpus petition filed on behalf of the 43 health workers violates the...
PRESS RELEASE March 24, 2010 The militant Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP, Peasant Movement of the Philippines) called on Commission on Election (Comelec) to disqualify bogus partylist groups who are obviously not marginalized and backed-up by the Arroyo...
News Release March 24, 2010 Students from the University of the Philippines (UP) and the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) today merged their protest actions to seek emergency allocation from the government for state colleges and universities. UP...
News Release March 24, 2010 The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) today assailed the inclusion of the son of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in the list of nominees formally submitted by a partylist group to the Comelec. The militant group also expressed alarm...
News Release March 23, 2010 The anti-fraud group Kontra Daya today challenged the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to dispel fears of a failure of elections by conducting mock elections. Comelec Commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal had hit back yesterday at critics...
Press Release March 23, 2010 Christian Rosler Esturco, a 3rd year AB Legal Studies student from Lyceum University, is one among the many students nationwide barred from taking their exams due to pending arrears. He received failing marks in his subjects last year...
Media Release March 22, 2010 Ahead of the March 26 deadline, KATRIBU Partylist, a progressive sectoral party of indigenous peoples submitted to the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) the names of its nominees Monday. “In submitting the names of our nominees ahead of...
22 March 2010 Press Release WATER FOR THE PEOPLE NETWORK Promoting people’s control over water services and resources WORLD WATER DAY Privatization Threatens Access to Water of 28,000 Farmers, 14 Million Consumers As the country marks World Water Day today, we call...
Press Release March 22, 2010 Kalikasan People's Network for the Environment Weeks before the May 2010 Elections and exactly a month before the Earth Day, green groups challenged those running in office to adhere to a ‘green’ set of demands and actions if they are...
Press Release March 22, 2010 The League of the Youth for the Environment (LYFE), a University of the Philippines based alliance of environmental groups, reported earlier at a press conference the results of their survey and background check on national candidates...
News Release March 22, 2010 This was the view of the umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan amid assurances from Malacanang that president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo will step down on June 30. Disclaimer | What you are reading is either a press release/ statement...
Media Release March 18, 2010 International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) - Canada It is with profound sadness that we receive news of the death of a major anti-imperialist activist, Dr., Hari Sharma, on Tuesday, March 16, 2010 in Burnaby, B.C., Canada, after a...
Press Release March 21, 2010 On March 20th, media published the news that com. AZAD, Spokes Person of CPI(Maoist) was arrested and there was a demand for his release. The information was passed on from DK Special Zone committee’s spokes person com. Gudsa Usendi and...
22 March 2010 Press Release Weeks before the May 2010 Elections and exactly a month before the Earth Day, green groups challenged those running in office to adhere to a ‘green’ set of demands and actions if they are indeed pro-people and pro-environment. The...
News Release March 21, 2010 The 43 health workers arrested in Morong, Rizal last Feb. 6 who are now detained at the military’s Camp Capinpin in Tanay, Rizal while facing trumped-up charges have revealed attempts by their soldier-custodians to have them cooperate...
Media Release 21 March 2010 Free the 43 Health Workers alliance today condemned the brazenness of the Armed Forces of the Philippines including their Commander in Chief, Philippine National Police, and the Department of Justice in their deliberate actions to...
Media Release 21 March 2010 There is no official statement from either the Department of Health or the Philippine Medical Association stating that the 43 detainees are not health workers. According to Health Alliance for Democracy, neither the DOH nor the PMA has...
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