Imelda Marcos’ conviction for several counts of graft by a Philippine court and sentencing her to imprisonment for multiple years, forfeiting her bail, and ordering the issuance – not the arrest – of a warrant of arrest, was so surreal.
The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) today lambasted the Senate of the Philippines’ approval on third and final reading of the rice tariffication bill or Senate Bill 1998 that would impose tariffication on 35 to 50% tariff on rice imports in lieu of quantitative restrictions. “Next to China, the Philippines is now the world’s top 2 rice importer. Rice tariffication is the end of local rice industry as we know it, unless we fight and take the power back into the hands of farmers and food producers.”
Dear friends, We are sharing with you the statement of Barbel Kofler, German Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights and Policy and Humanitarian Aid, and that of Luxembourg ministers Jean Asselborn, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Romain Schneider, Minister for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs, on the killing of Atty. Benjamin “Ben” Ramos. read more
Fides Lim, wife of detained National Democratic Front (NDF) peace consultant continues to decry the illegal arrest and detention of her 69-year-old husband Vicente Ladlad at Camp Karingal, simultaneously disclosing the poor prison conditions that her husband and other detainees are made to endure. Ladlad was arrested on November 8, 2018, along with couple Alberto…
Bärbel Kofler, Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid at the Federal Foreign Office, issued the following statement today (7 November) on the murder of human rights lawyer Benjamin Ramos on 6 November 2018 in Negros Occidental : read more
Declaration of Jean Asselborn, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, and Romain Schneider, Minister for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs, on the assassination of human rights defender Ben Ramos: “We strongly condemn the killing of human rights defender Benjamin Ramos, executive director of the Peace and Development Group, by unidentified persons on November 6 2018…
Tanggol Bayi, an association of women human rights defenders (WHRDs) in the Philippines, strongly condemns the succession of violence against women by State forces amid the implementation of the Duterte government’s anti-people policies, foremost the war on drugs and counterinsurgency program Oplan Kapayapaan. The drug war did not only spin a series of brutal killings…
After the City council of Davao amended the 2013 Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, environmental group Interface Development Interventions (IDIS) now urge the City Mayor’s office to sign the amended ordinance and implement it with tight monitoring.