The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on Nigerian authorities to put an end of media intimidation ahead of tomorrow?s presidential elections after the recent raid of a television station in Abuja by intelligence service and the shut down of two other media outlets in the last 10 days.
Woodside, New York ? Anakbayan NY/NJ, the local Filipino American youth advocacy group, took it upon themselves last Saturday to inform the Filipino community on the Felisa Garcia case. They sponsored a full investigation for the unexplained death of Felisa “Fely” Garcia, 58, a Filipina domestic caregiver who died from an alleged suicide last March 14 in the Bronx.
MANILA — Anakpawis Representative and political detainee today said that the Commission on Elections should stop dilly-dallying on the issue of fake and government-funded party-lists and take action to immediately disqualify these.
NEW YORK, NY, April 20, 2007 — FIND, Inc. is appalled at the nightmarish event that occurred on March 14, 2007 as a Filipina Catholic-school girl was heavily beaten on a New York City MTA bus and was further ignored by the bus driver who insensitively told her to “Go talk to a priest.” 17-year old Marie Stefanie Martinez was attacked by 13 African American teenagers after stepping onto a B82 bus in Brooklyn. After being taunted, being called a “Chink” and being pushed around, Martinez finally decided to fight back and that is when things took a turn for the worse.
The United States has issued an advisory to its citizens in the Philippines to reconsider traveling to certain parts of the country, particularly Central Mindanao. “The Embassy has information that a terrorist group may be planning to carry out bombing attacks in central Mindanao over the next several days,” said the advisory from the US embassy in Manila.
Australia, meanwhile, issued today a similar advisory, strongly urging its citizens not to travel to Mindanao and other parts of the country.