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Philippines Still Asia’s Most Dangerous Country for Workers, Also No. 3 in the World
Philippines Still Asia’s Most Dangerous Country for Workers, Also No. 3 in the World
A recent survey finds that the Philippines remains on top of the list of most dangerous countries for workers for several years now. Labor groups say the ILO’s decision to conduct a fact-finding mission here highlights the worsening abuses against labor-rights activists.
Slideshow: Raymond Manalo, Torture Victim, Turns Over a New Leaf
Slideshow: Raymond Manalo, Torture Victim, Turns Over a New Leaf
Torture Victim Turns Over a New Leaf
Only 15, Student Confronts Military-Backed Political Repression in Quezon City School
Only 15, Student Confronts Military-Backed Political Repression in Quezon City School
Pressured by the military, officials of a high school in Quezon City rejected the enrollment of a student activist. She could only enroll at the school, they told her, if she signed a waiver that would prohibit her from participating in protest actions and rallies. Aghast and angry, the student decided to fight back.
CHR to Military: Explain Continued Use of ‘Orders of Battle’
CHR to Military: Explain Continued Use of ‘Orders of Battle’
In forum, CHR officials and journalists from the NUJP bewail the use by the military of OBs. CHR chairperson Leila de Lima says the AFP claimed to have stopped using OBs but replaced these with “watch lists” – and military officials could not explain to her the difference.
Dismantling of IALAG, Arroyo’s Shadowy Agency, ‘Just for Show’
Dismantling of IALAG, Arroyo’s Shadowy Agency, ‘Just for Show’
Unless the Arroyo regime released all the individuals it has thrown to jail for politically motivated and fabricated charges, the abolition last month of the agency behind these cases will amount to nothing but a publicity stunt, according to lawyers and human-rights advocates.
A Peasant Leader’s Murder Shatters the ‘Peace’ in Dumaguete
A Peasant Leader’s Murder Shatters the ‘Peace’ in Dumaguete
Fermin Lorico was a peasant organizer and a mass leader. He had been a marked man. On Wednesday, minutes after attending the anti-charter change rally in Dumaguete City, a gunman shot him several times – the latest in a series of extrajudicial killings of progressive leaders in Negros Oriental.
Int’l Group Alarmed by Philippines’s Failure to Stop Killings of Lawyers, Judges
Int’l Group Alarmed by Philippines’s Failure to Stop Killings of Lawyers, Judges
Despite public statements from Arroyo denouncing extrajudicial killings, there is a gap between her rhetoric and what it has done to address the killings, said the group from the Netherlands and Belgium called Lawyers for Lawyers. Whatever initiatives she has implemented have failed to produce actual results, it said.
Another ‘Travesty’ as Congress Votes to Extend Life of Failed CARP
Farmers and activists protesting in Congress Wednesday night.
Another ‘Travesty’ as Congress Votes to Extend Life of Failed CARP
Farmers and activists protesting in Congress Wednesday night.
The landlord-dominated Congress, led by the relatives of President Arroyo, voted Wednesday night to add five more years to the implementation of a 20-year-old agrarian-reform program that has failed to uplift the lives of peasants and farmers in the Philippines. And critics say the new proposed law is even worse than the original.
Video: ‘I Thought I Was Going to Die’
Video: ‘I Thought I Was Going to Die’
Melissa Roxas Case: Military Is Accountable
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