Latest press releases, statements, manifestos, announcements, etc.
CHILDREN?S CONGRESS
A Global Campaign on Violence Against Children with the theme: Worldwide Day of Action to End Violence Against Children and Corporal Punishment will commence on October 19 this year to remind all nations of its vow to protect and uphold the rights of the children regardless of age, sex, color, religion, ethnicity, race and status.
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?How much talent fee is DOLE-Stanfilco paying the Armed Forces of the Philippines to become its foul mouthpiece against the legitimate demands of retrenched workers of DITFI?? This was the question of Kilusang Mayo Uno-Southern Mindanao Region Chair Romualdo Basilio following the accusations of Major Medel Aguilar of the 5th Civil Relations Group that the labor center was behind the ?closure? of Davao International Transport Facilities, Inc (DITFI).
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines expresses utmost concern over moves by senators to cite a reporter in contempt for refusing to reveal her sources, have a newspaper investigated and, worst, amend or repeal the law protecting confidential news sources.
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National Democratic Front of the Philippines
Southern Mindanao
Press Statement
October 5, 2007
Plunderous NBN deal a hallmark of bureaucrat capitalism under the Arroyo regime— NDF Southern Mindanao
The scandalous 329 million-dollar National Broadband Network scam that has now become daily primetime fare further exposes the Arroyo regime’s inherent rotten character in plundering the nation’s wealth and resources. The Filipino people are repulsed by the shameless plunder being committed in broad daylight by Arroyo through her own husband Mike Arroyo and other minions. This deal, while scrapped by Arroyo for political expediency in the face of the people’s ire, is a hallmark of the insidiousness of bureaucrat capitalism in the Philippines.
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Panalipdan! Mindanao, a network of church and sectoral organizations and NGOs, issued a statement in support of the outburst of community resistance taking place in Tampakan, South Cotabato this week. The current community actions center on the refusal of the company to regularize more than two hundred of its workers despite its obligation under Philippine Labor Code.
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