“Where is the change that you promised?”
Kalbaryo ng Maralita 2017 | Poor’s suffering continues under Duterte
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‘We should have been regular workers now’ | Contractuals’ strike challenges labor dept’s DO174
“This is a test case for the Duterte administration to bare its resolve in ending contractualization through strong intervention.”
‘Heartless against the homeless’ | Bail set for detained Apollo urban poor
“Where will they get the money for bail? This is further oppression of the poor whose only fault is to fight for the land they have been living on for more than 30 years.”
Talks conclude with more agreements on free land distribution
After four days of intense formal negotiations and an extra day of back-channel talks, the parties firmed up their agreement on free land distribution “as a basic principle of genuine agrarian reform.”
NDFP, GRP sign interim joint ceasefire agreement
In a formal ceremony presided by the Royal Norwegian Government facilitator Elisabeth Slattum, the parties signed the document entitled Agreement on an Interim Joint Ceasefire they said was a product of three “very difficult” days of negotiations.
Urban poor residents reoccupy unclaimed land, get ‘trespassing’ cases
At Camp Karingal, the police did not even bother feeding the 57 Apollo residents it ‘arrested.’
Panels begin formal ceasefire negotiations
Said to be the most contentious issue on the approved agenda in this fourth round of talks, the parties ceasefire committees are discussing the GRP’s bilateral ceasefire proposal it first submitted at the third round of formal talks in Rome, Italy last January and the NDFP’s joint unilateral ceasefire declarations to be bound by a memorandum of understanding.
Police arrest 57 homeless urban poor reclaiming land in QC
“They have lived in the streets for nine months, with no relocation or aid, and now that they are reclaiming what is rightfully theirs, they are being treated like criminals?”
Fourth round of GRP-NDFP talks finally opens; ceasefire in the agenda
With nearly all the negotiators, consultants, advisers and resource persons of both parties wearing traditional barong Tagalog and ternos, the ceremony regained some of the light-heartedness of the previous three rounds seemingly lost in the frantic informal discussions marking the first day of negotiations.
Public school teachers assert continuing professional dev’t as right
ACT asserts that CPD is a right and should given as free social service, instead of adding burden to already-cash-strapped professionals, particularly, public schools teachers. The group was apprehensive that the program will be privatized as it was not explicitly stated in the recently-issued IRR that CPD program could be given free.
Peace panels postpone talks opening to April 3
NDFP peace negotiator Benito Tiamzon said both panels have decided to hold the opening ceremony tomorrow at 10 o’clock in the morning (five o’clock in the afternoon, Philippine time)