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MANILA —At least seven major infrastructure projects totaling 18-billion
pesos under President Arroyo’s Mindanao super region strategy are now ready
for taking, according to Presidential Peace Adviser Jesus Dureza.
At the 2nd Government Infrastructure Forum held last week at Edsa Shang-rila
Hotel, Dureza presented projects that include roads, bridges, irrigation
with power generation, and a food complex as having greater economic
viability and with high impact on peace.
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MANILA -- The Black and White Movement denounces in the strongest possible terms the fascist methods of the Arroyo regime in harassing outspoken critics of the administration. Faced with the…
Amnesty International, as one of the members on the Jury of the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders (MEA), announces that the 2007 Laureates are: Rajan Hoole and Kopalasingham…
Team Unity senatorial candidates will support the passage of new legislation imposing stricter penalties on polluters of water sources.
Senatorial candidates Edgardo Angara, Michael Defensor, Cesar Montano, Tessie Aquino-Oreta, Luis “Chavit” Singson, and Vicente “Tito” Sotto III said there is a need to pass laws that would deter the pollution of the diminishing water sources in the Philippines.
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The Asian Development Bank will soon release a “consultation draft” on revising its policies that are supposed to protect the environment, the rights of Indigenous Peoples, and those who are resettled against their will as a result of Bank Projects. “This Safeguard Policy Update (SPU) could offer the ADB a critical opportunity to enhance its environment, resettlement and Indigenous Peoples policies in accordance with good international standards, to incorporate lessons from past failures and to put in place and fund dramatically improved safeguard systems for protecting the very people the ADB claims to help through its projects,” said Michael Simon Program Manager of Oxfam Australia.
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