Human rights group Karapatan is calling for a transparent and credible process on the selection of members of the Human Rights Victims Claims Board.
Rights groups call for transparency on selection of Victims Claims Board
Day: March 22, 2013
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Ang kanilang pakikidalamhati
Ni RAYMUND B. VILLANUEVA (Para ulit kay Kristel Tejada, 16) Nakidalamhati sila sa pamilya ng patay– badha sa mukha ang panghihinayang lungkot ang tinig, balikat ay lungayngay. Ang wika nila’y ganito: “Ipinagutos kahapon ang pagrebisa nitong patakaran sa matrikula.” “Wala kaming magagawa sa palisiya ng mga eskwela.” “‘Wag sanang katasin ng mga militante ang kamatayan…
Broad array of groups protest against Aquino gov’t policies that worsen poverty, hardships
“No money, no service” is how the Anakpawis Partylist described the effects of “Aquino’s rotten policy when it comes to the people’s right to social services.”
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A decade of occupation for Iraqi women
By YIFAT SUSSKIND and YANAR MOHAMMED Commondreams.org A decade after the US invasion of Iraq, only one of the straw-man arguments for going to war remains standing: “We did it for democracy and women’s rights.” And yet we hear the same thing again and again from women in the shelters we operate throughout Iraq: “Why…
The US Invasion of Iraq was a crime and its perpetrators are murderers
By PAUL SAVOY Commondreams.org Ten years after the invasion of Iraq, it is astonishing in a nation dedicated to the rule of law that every aspect of the war has been debated except the relevant law. To be sure, a vast array of articles, books and films have documented how pre-war intelligence was “manipulated” or…
Kristel Tejada, her family’s ‘Star’
“Schooling was her life and hope. There were bigger problems that we faced in the past. Even if we hardly get a good meal, we stayed together. We remained strong. Even when she was hungry, she attended school.” Krizia, sister of UP student Kristel Tejada
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Patients, health workers join protests against privatization of gov’t hospitals
“Like Kristel Tejada, the UP freshman who took her own life because of her family’s inability to pay her tuition, the Filipino people, especially those who cannot afford expensive health services, are left with no other choice but to wait for their death. This system is the one that pushes us to desperation.”