Amnesty International’s reaction to Council of Europe’s report on renditions

In response to the second report by the Council of Europe’s Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, which confirms that the CIA has operated secret detention centres in Poland and Romania, and perhaps in other Council of Europe member states, Amnesty International said:
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Philippines: School kindles OFW kids? knack for life

by RUBY ANNE R. PASCUA
www.ofwjournalism.net

MANILA ? IN THIS school, students are allowed to stare across the window to daydream during classes.

That?s how some students like Cathyrine Tamayo and Ginesa Patalinhog get their motivation to stay out of the streets and stay in this school called Erda Tech.
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Philippines: Moro groups urge junking of Human Security Act

DAVAO CITY, Philippines — “We appeal and call the attention of the upper house in the senate as well as lawmakers in the Congress to question the Human Security Act in the Supreme Court, as these unlawful and inhuman law approved by Gloria Macapagal Arroyo as this was set to be implemented this coming July 2007 (next month) after she signed it last February 2007,” Abubakar Uy said Suara Bangsamoro Secretary General in Southern Mindanao Region.

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