Amnesty International has released its 2007 report that, in general, decried the “politics of fear” that, according to the group,…
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(London) Powerful governments and armed groups are deliberately fomenting fear to erode human rights and to create an increasingly polarized…
Amnesty International Report 2007: Facts and Figures These Facts and Figures highlight the situation in some of Amnesty Internationals key…
REGIONAL OVERVIEWS: ASIA-PACIFIC 2006 was a year of dramatic events and much change in Asia and the Pacific. Political upheavals…
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES Head of state and government: Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Death penalty: abolitionist for all crimes International Criminal…
Manifesto: Until and unless EO 608 is struck down by the courts or withdrawn by President Macapagal-Arroyo, it will bolster her ongoing efforts to arbitrarily withhold information from the Filipino people, in violation of our right to information on matters of public concern.
DAVAO CITY — Some P128 million worth of farm to market roads (FMR) is scheduled for implementation under the Mindanao…
Anyone brandishing a firearm and is not a member of the armed forces or of the police will be arrested,” Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, who chairs the Regional Peace and Order Council, said today. “And if that someone is a bodyguard of a politician, the politician will be arrested as well, he said. This is how we will do it, we just have to be really firm in applying the law and protecting the people.
Senate minority leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. today called for the relief of the director for Southern Mindanao of the Commission…
MANILA — In a significant development to promote bilateral Philippines-Japan relations, Secretary of Foreign Affairs Dr. Alberto G. Romulo announced…
