East Asia

Philippine women’s groups urge lawmakers to pass Reproductive Health Bill

MANILA, Philippines – A day before several lawmakers deliver their respective sponsorship speeches on the controversial bill promoting the use of both artificial and natural means of family planning, among others, a network of more than 50 non-government and people's organizations advocating women's and people's rights today urged other members of the House of Representatives to affirm women’s right to reproductive self-determination, and to support the immediate passage of the Reproductive Health Bill.

PHILIPPINES: Suspend US Military Deployments to Mindanao

 

Citizens’ Peace Watch

 

A broad coalition of NGOs, social movements, and political parties from Mindanao and the rest of the country today called for all US military deployments in Mindanao suspended pending the conclusion of a fair and thorough probe by lawmakers.

 


Towards Women’s Liberation

by ILPS

The cause of women’s liberation and the rights of women against sexual discrimination, exploitation and violence


PHILIPPINES: Open Letter to the NPA General Command and the NDF

We, the undersigned, condemn in the strongest possible terms the recent spate of killings of farmers and farmer-leaders in Masbate, perpetrated by individuals identified as belonging to the local command of the New People’s Army.

CPP-NPA-NDF CPP-NPA-NDF


Anti -war Hiroshima and Nagasaki month:Imperialist war But ;"Who Started the Blitz"?

 

      Between 1940 and 1945, sixty-one German cities with a total population of
      25 millions were destroyed or devastated in a bombing campaign initiated
      by the British government. Destruction on this scale had no other purpose
      than the indiscriminate mass murder of as many German people as possible
      quite regardless of their civilian status. It led to retaliatory bombing
      resulting in 60,000 British dead and 86,000 injured.


PHILIPPINES: Ban Endosulfan!

 Ban Endosulfan!

Citizens Press for Total Ban on Endosulfan to Put Off "Toxic Time Bomb"

 


End G8 Domination!

G8G8

Joint Statement on the 34th G8 Summit in Toyako, Hokkaido, Japan


Philippines: Another Scandal rocks Arroyo regime


ZTE deal to cost US$527 million after 20 years of repayment


Philippine Protest Marks The First Senate Hearing On The JPEPA

14 September 2007, Manila, Philippines. – A crowd of more than 300 workers, farmers, fishers, and environmentalists from the Magkaisa Junk JPEPA Coalition (MJJC) today called on the Senators of the 14th Congress to look beyond the rosy projections and government hype surrounding the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA), and to carefully assess its short-term and long-term implications. The group’s call came on the day of the first scheduled Senate hearing for this historic, precedent-setting treaty.

 


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