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In Mindanao, Cesar Montano Bares Countryside Development Agenda

Butuan City?In his sortie last night in Butuan, Agusan del Norte, Lakas-CMD senatorial candidate, internationally acclaimed actor, director and movie producer Cesar Montano bared his agenda for the development of the rural areas. In an extemporaneous speech that moved the crowd in Butuan, Cesar Montano said that his platform to develop the country-side is simple but effective. It is summed up by his name?C.E.S.A.R. This stands for Cooperative, Entrepreneurship, Support Services, Rural Productivity, and Rural Infrastructure. ?Contrary to my critics claim that I have no agenda,? Montano said, ?my name represents my agenda for country-side development. Pngalan ko and paninindigan ko (my name is my commitment).?
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Selda Lauds UNHRC for Urging Philippines to Pay Rights Victims

MANILA — The Samahan ng mga Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at para sa Amnestiya or SELDA, an organization of Human Rights Violations Victims during Martial Law lauds the United Nations Human Rights Committee in its April 3 statement calling on the Philippine government to pay compensation to the 9,539 victims of martial law.

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Human Rights Now Japan Ends Probe in Philippines

HRN Fact finding team in Philippine April 2007

1 Human Rights Now, Tokyo Based international human rights NGO has conducted the investigation on extrajudicial killing and enforced disappearance in the Philippines on 14-21 April, 2007. As Asian friend, Japanese civil society is very concerned the fact that substantial numbers of Filipino people have targeted of extrajudicial killing and enforced disappearance. Human Rights Now shares this very concern and decides to send fact finding mission to the Philippines.
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Philippines: Fake partylists should back out now ? Rep. Maza

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MANILA — In the wake of a leaked Palace memo detailing a hatchet job on progressive
partylists and putting up pro-administration partylists to dominate
Congress, Gabriela Women?s Partylist Representative Liza Largoza Maza today
strongly urged the dissolution of Agbiag Timpuyog Ilocano, Babae Ka, Kalahi
and LYPAD as bogus partylists since their officers and nominees are
government officials.
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