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Live Webcast: Kin of Morong 43 Speak of Despair
In a forum today, March 13, between the relatives and lawyers/supporters of the Morong 43, the relatives expressed the difficulties they face more than a month after the 43 health workers were taken by soldiers during a health training in Morong, Rizal. They spoke of the hardships they have to endure each time they visit their relatives in Camp Capinpin, the harassment many of them continue to face from the military, and of their despair in seeing their loved ones behind bars.
15 Soldiers — Not 11 — Killed in Mindoro Ambush, Reds Claim

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) said today that 15 soldiers -- not 11 as initially reported in the media -- died in the firefight between government troops and New People's Army (NPA) guerrillas in Mansalay, Oriental Mindoro, on March 6.
Video: Filipino Women Take a Day Off to March Vs Oppression, Injustice

Video: Filipino Women Take a Day Off to March
Group Releases Scathing Report on Violations of Workers’ Rights in Philippines

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR), an NGO that documents and monitors human-rights violations committed against workers in the Philippines, released today a report that says that, in the past 50 years, unemployment in the country is highest in the nine years that President Arroyo is in power and that attacks on workers and unionists have worsened.
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