Category — News and Features

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11 August 2009

NEW People’s Army rebels raided a military detachment in Barangay Napungas, Davao del Norte while using a soldier, two village councilors and a child as human shields last Sunday. [Read more →]

TERESA CEROJANO, The Associated Press – http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/international-10/124991300778540.xml&;storylist=international

10 August 2009

MANILA, Philippines – President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s aides struggled to explain a reported $20,000 dinner bill racked up by her and her entourage in New York while the Philippines was mourning the passing of former leader Corazon Aquino. [Read more →]

Streetwise, By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo, Business World

31 July – 1 August 2009

“Keeping silent is like silencing forever all the voices that have been silenced,” says Melissa Roxas. A writer, poet, community health worker and, incidentally, an American citizen of Filipino ancestry, Melissa Roxas is altogether something else.  Last May, she and two Filipino companions were abducted by 15 armed men in Tarlac province while doing a health survey in the barrios.  She was tortured to the brink of death by people she suspects to be members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. [Read more →]

By Alcuin Papa, Philippine Daily Inquirer – http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20090729-217730/Poster-child-of-impunity-68-media-men-slain

29 July 2009

MANILA, Philippines-Not since the dark days of martial law have the Philippine media been as threatened as now.

To stifle dissent, the dictator Ferdinand Marcos ordered the closure of print and broadcast media and the incarceration of certain journalists. But media repression has recurred during the term of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, and it has gotten worse. [Read more →]

By Leila De Lima, Philippine Daily Inquirer, http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20090723-216804/Human-rights-violations-rise

23 July 2009

MANILA, Philippines—Every administration will insist that protection of human rights is a priority. This article does not seek to contradict the claim that steps have been taken to protect human rights. The Arroyo administration has indeed undertaken initiatives aimed at promoting human rights.

However, one cannot deny that human rights violations continue to happen. In fact, we are dealing with the same human rights issues that have plagued the country for decades. It is therefore imperative that we determine whether the administration’s responses have addressed these concerns. [Read more →]

Youth leaders cry against military spying, harassment in schools

CBCP News – http://www.cbcpnews.com/?q=node/6986

24 January 2009

QUEZON CITY—The Tanggulan Youth Network for Human Rights and Civil Liberties (TANGGULAN) complained against alleged military agents at the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) yesterday, January 23, for allegedly spying on activities and harassing student leaders from different universities and colleges in Metro -Manila. [Read more →]