Child advocates to hold rally today for Grecil

Karapatan Southern Mindanao, along with children's rights advocate, will be staging an indignation rally here today to demand justice for Grecil Buya Galacio, the girl killed allegedly by the military in New Bataan, Compostella Valley Province, last March 31.

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Philippines remains hopeful jockeying for 2010 polls won’t derail reforms, fiscal discipline

MANILA — While conceding that early politicking could take place in the Senate in the run-up to the 2010 presidential elections, Malaca?ang remains hopeful that all parties would move “forward in a united way to stay on the path of economic reform and fiscal discipline.”
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Philippines elections, an indictment of Arroyo — NDF

The circus that is the recent Philippine midterm elections was an indictment of how Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo “won” her presidency in the last 2004 elections and punctuated her government’s acute isolation from the Filipino masses.
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Philippines: Migrante calls on Arroyo to fulfill Cortez family?s last wish

MANILA — An alliance of organizations composed of OFWs and their families today call on Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to indeed fulfill the last wish of OFW Rey Cortez? family ? for his remains to be repatriated to the Philippines.
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