Jeppie Ramada intends to join Angela Librado-Trinidad, a fellow Bayan Muna activist, in the halls of the City Council. And he would never abandon, he promises, the struggles of the people ? ordinary residents, peasants, the urban poor, among others ? his group represents.
Journalists? leaders and media chiefs meeting in Iraq today issued a new appeal for the release of kidnapped BBC journalist who has been missing for eight weeks in Palestine.
The Iraqi journalism community was meeting in Irbil in the north of the country to put together a national safety and security strategy to combat the threats to media and reporters in a conflict that has already claimed the lives of more than 200 media staff since the United States invasion in 2003.
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Yet another politically motivated trial in Viet Nam has turned citizens who have only peacefully expressed opinions into prisoner of conscience. Today, three leading members of the People?s Democratic Party (PDP) were sentenced to prison terms of between three and five years in what the prosecutor in the Ho Chi Minh City People?s Court described as a warning to other ?hostile forces.?
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the death of journalist Mohammed Abdullahi Khalif, shot while on assignment in Puntland, north-eastern Somalia on Saturday, 5 May.
?We express our solidarity with Mohamed?s family and colleagues,? said Gabriel Baglo, Director of IFJ Africa office. ?Somalia is the most dangerous place for journalists in Africa.?
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HONOLULU – The Pacific Islands Conference of Leaders (PICL) representing 12 Pacific states and territories, including the U.S. State of Hawaii and two French dependencies, completed their latest triennial meeting Wednesday in Washington, D.C. with participants agreeing the gathering “establishes a way forward for strengthening U.S.-Pacific Islands relations.”