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Philippines: NCCP Urges Voters to Vote for ‘Champions of the Poor’

Statement on the May 2007 Elections

The May 2007 elections is a crucial event in our country. It is held at a time of intensifying economic, political, cultural and spiritual crises. It comes at a time when there are more than 800 victims of extrajudicial killings and other forms of human rights violations happening in our midst. It also takes place at a time when serious questions about the legitimacy of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo?s rule still hound her.

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Philippines: Arroyo Guilty of Double Standard in Campbell, Posa Cases

MANILA — ?It?s double standard and there?s no other way to call it.?

This was according to GABRIELA Secretary General Emmi De Jesus who accosted the Macapagal-Arroyo administration for its quick responses when it comes to complaints and requests from US citizens yet plays blind and deaf to the murder and rape of its own people.
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Philippines: AFP should focus awareness drive on human rights in its ranks

MANILA — The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is grossly deceptive in its latest scheme to hold so-called awareness drive to justify continuing military presence in urban communities during the elections. Instead of rounding up urban poor communities and universities to lecture against cause-oriented groups, the AFP should focus awareness drive on human rights among its ranks. This election season, they should all go back to the barracks and take a study leave on human rights. We don’t need them dictating upon the people the AFP’s choice of candidates in the guise of ‘awareness drive’ which actually consists of lectures against activist groups as what they did at the Philippine Normal University, Philippine Christian University and other schools and communities. We join the various groups in demanding immediate and total pull-out of AFP troops who will likely repeat the scenario of active military role in the fraudulent 2004 elections.
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DOT, PAMB Are Washing Hands Over Mount Apo Death: Kabataan Partylist

DAVAO CITY ? Kabataan Partylist said the Department of Tourism, the
Mt. Apo Range Natural Park, and Protected Area Management Board’s
(PAMB) are just washing their hands over the drowning of a mountaineer
in Lake Venado in Mt. Apo, April 5, Maundy Thursday.

The youth partylist said the state should be the first and foremost
guardian of the security of its citizens, be it the victim’s fault or
a natural disaster.

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Indicted Indonesian General Leads Joint Military Exercise with U.S.

April 26, 2007 – The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN)
today condemned the participation of Indonesian Major General Noer
Muis in a joint U.S.-Indonesia military exercise this week. General
Muis has been indicted for crimes against humanity in East Timor.
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