Video: Filipino Women Take a Day Off to March
Day: March 12, 2010
15 Soldiers — Not 11 — Killed in Mindoro Ambush, Reds Claim
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) said today that 15 soldiers — not 11 as initially reported in the media — died in the firefight between government troops and New People’s Army (NPA) guerrillas in Mansalay, Oriental Mindoro, on March 6.
Looming Massive Displacement, Farmers Protest SMC’s Take-Over of MRT 7 Project
PRESS RELEASE March 12, 2010 Farmers from Bgy. Tungkong Mangga, San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan protested today at San Miguel Corp. main office in Ortigas Center opposing Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco’s take-over of the MRT 7 project. Tungkong Mangga is the site of the 200-hectare inter-modal station of the 23-kilometer MRT 7 composed of the light…
13 Lumads Released After 36 Hours of Illegal Detention
PRESS RELEASE March 12, 2010 Davao City —- The Katribu Partylist denounced the arrest and detention for more than 36 hours of 13 farmers–mostly, Lumads–by soldiers of the 25th Infantry Battallion-10th Infantry Division in Monkayo town, Compostela Valley. The Indigenous people’s sectoral partylist group and the Union of Peoples Lawyers in Mindanao (UPLM) secured the…
OWWA do not have ‘Word of Honor,’ says Annasban workers
12 March 2010 PRESS RELEASE One week after ending their camp-out in front of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), the repatriated Overseas Filipino Workers from the Annasban Group of Companies today trooped back to picket at the agency’s doorsteps, after the OWWA yet again reneged on most of its promises to the migrant workers.…
Video: Live Chat with Satur Ocampo
Live Chat with Satur Ocampo
Group Releases Scathing Report on Violations of Workers’ Rights in Philippines
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR), an NGO that documents and monitors human-rights violations committed against workers in the Philippines, released today a report that says that, in the past 50 years, unemployment in the country is highest in the nine years that President Arroyo is in power and that attacks on workers and unionists have worsened.