Activists and human-rights advocates stage a demonstration on San Pedro Street on Thursday to denounce what they claim as the government's intensifying anti-insurgency campaign that victimizes children. The photo in the placard is that of Grecil Buya, the 9-year-old girl from New Bataan, Compostela Valley, who was killed in March during a military raid on members of the communist New People's Army. 
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MANILA — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Wednesday invited executives of several media outfits to Malaca?ang to solicit their help for the last three years of her administration, during which she hopes to build her “legacy.”
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has renewed its calls for the Philippines government to decriminalize libel, after another journalist was jailed for defamation in a lawsuit issued by a former congressman.
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The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUUJP) Davao Chapter condemns the jailing of Jofelle Tesorio for libel.
Ms Tesorio is former correspondent of the Philippine Daily Inquirer and editor of Bandillo ng Palawan, now with the Bangkok-based Asia News Network.
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MANILA — The Philippine human rights alliance KARAPATAN welcomed the planned probe on extrajudicial killings of former soldier and now senator-elect Antonio Trillanes.
KARAPATAN Secretary General Marie Hilao-Enriquez said, “We laud Senator Trillanes for this move to put the Arroyo administration to task for the unabated extrajudicial killings.”
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