MANILA — The clear indictment of the Permanent People?s Tribunal (PPT), which proclaimed the Arroyo government guilty of abandoning the poor due to its economic policies, should now push the administration to urgently address poverty.
MANILA — The Families of Desaparecidos for Justice
(DESAPARECIDOS) condemned the abduction of a woman
urban poor leader in Dasmari?as, Cavite this afternoon
as another handiwork of state security forces.
Mass human rights violations such as forced evictions and the destruction of
housing continue unabated in the Philippines, warns the Geneva-based Centre on
Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), and its team of international human
rights experts.
MANILA — Local and national candidates should publicly declare their respective disaster prevention plans in preparation for the typhoons, floods, and other natural disasters expected to come with the La Nina phenomenon, environmental activists from Kalikasan-Peoples Network for the Environment (Kalikasan-PNE) said today.
DAVAO CITY — The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has been challenged by Anakpawis, the partylist organization, to prove that the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) is effective. The group also criticized the department for its proposal to extend the program for 10 more years.
The DAR in Southern Mindanao recently boasted that it has surpassed its 2006 target in land acquisition and distribution, claiming that it has distributed a total of 7, 242 hectares of agricultural lands to 6,238 farm-beneficiaries.