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Groups in Australia have joined in protest against the continuing killings of unarmed civilians in the Philippines through a postcard campaign featuring peace and justice advocate Bishop Alberto Ramento of the Philippine Independent Church killed by alleged Philippine military elements in Oct. 2006 in his convent in Tarlac.
This follows the recent military abduction and torture of pastor Berlin Guerrero (48) in Laguna of the Uniting Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP), forcibly taken from his wife and 3 children by soldiers in 2 vans.
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Trafficking for forced prostitution in Greece is believed to have increased tenfold in the last 10 years. However, the government has not yet provided sufficient measures to protect and support trafficked women and girls, Amnesty International said today.
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MANILA — The militant Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) vowed to do everything in its power to block the extension of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) and said that it would push for a new law that would implement genuine land reform.
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The anti-terrorism act: Recipe for undeclared martial law
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the conviction of four journalists and three publishing houses in Ethiopia on charges they attempted to ?dismantle the constitutional system? after they published articles about the anti-government riots in November 2005 that came after elections in the country six months earlier.
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