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Philippines: CPP urges UNICEF to join probe of killing of 9-year old’s slay by military

PRESS RELEASE
April 8, 2007
Information Bureau
Communist Party of the Philippines

CPP urges UNICEF to join probe of killing of 9-year old’s slay by military

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today urged the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) as well as other human rights and children’s rights agencies to forge a team to probe the March 31 killing by the Philippine Army of a 9-year old child in a Compostela Valley barrio.

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Child-focused civil society groups urge CHR to probe, act on case of 9-year old girl-child killed by military in New Bataan, Compostela Valley

KABIBA Alliance for Children?s Concerns in Mindanao Children?s Rehabilitation Center-Southern Mindanao Regional Office (CRC-SMRO) PRESS RELEASE 07 April 2007 Child-focused civil society groups urge CHR to probe, act on case…

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Philippines: Palace, AFP finally admit roles in anti-Satur, anti-Bayan Muna drive

PRESS STATEMENT
April 5, 2007

Palace, AFP finally admit roles in anti-Satur, anti-Bayan Muna drive

Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita has finally admitted Malaca?ang’s
leading role in the fabricated charges leveled against Bayan Muna Rep.
Satur Ocampo and the campaign to crush Bayan Muna.

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Philippines: GMA Orders GAB to Jail Culprits on Death of Koronadal Boxer

MANILA — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has ordered the Games and Amusements Board (GAB) to make the promoters and managers accountable for the death of Filipino boxer Angelito “Lito” Sisnorio in a mismatch of a fight in Thailand recently.

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Philippines: Increasing Rice Imports Endangers Food Security and Sufficiency

MANILA — The Philippines is now Asia?s largest rice importer as a result of agricultural trade liberalization coupled with state neglect, and this threatens the country?s food security and sufficiency, according to independent think-tank IBON Foundation.

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