“[ICHRP] demands an end to the reign of terror on political dissent, and calls for the immediate surfacing of all activists who have been forcibly disappeared by state forces,” ICHRP Chairperson Peter Murphy said.
“[T]he suspects arrived on a white Honda XRM 125 motorcycle, with plate numbers DD 22153. The back rider alighted from the motorcycle and suddenly approached the victim, shooting him several times in different parts of his body,” the police’s Special Investigation Task Group (SITG) Bunduquin said.
“As an archipelagic country with a long stretch of shoreline, it is ironic that we are a net importer of salt, with 90% of our salt consumption imported from Australia, China, New Zealand, and Thailand,” the KMP said.
“For 90 days, they managed to evade any form of accountability. They don’t even have the courtesy of properly showing their faces in Congress hearings while fisher folk representatives travel far and long to attend. Mahiya naman kayo, RDC at SMC,” said Leody de Guzman of Partido Lakas ng Masa.
Save Our Schools (SOS) network spokesperson Jeany ‘Rose’ Hayahay is the award’s winner for Asia and the Pacific region given by Front Line Defenders in a special ceremony in Dublin, Ireland last Friday, May 26.
“It is not enough that additional payments (to PhilHealth, SSS and Pag-Ibig) are suspended. We want the total scrapping of the OEC,” the OFWs said.
Migrante Middle East said it is disturbed that Philippine-based manpower services and UAE employers are increasingly substituting and revising master contracts of Filipino cleaning services workers without their consent.
KMP’s Danilo Ramos said the bill would result in smaller agricultural production, worsening hunger and further reliance on foreign investments if passed into law.
“We condemn the Kuwait government for sending back OFWs because it sees the Philippine government as abetting violations of labor agreements by providing shelters to distressed OFWs,” Migrante International said.
“It is important for Canada to stop offering financial, programmatic, and technical assistance to the Philippine Government as it may lead to the oppression of its own citizens through counter-terrorism measures,” ICHRP Canada said.
