Archive for April, 2007

Women’s Rights NGO calls on Candidates to Uphold Women’s Rights

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe via email. Thanks for visiting!“Congressional and local electoral candidates when elected into government posts must uphold women’s rights as protected by the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (Women’s Convention),” says Atty. Clara Rita A. Padilla, Executive Director of EnGendeRights. [...]

Consumers decry P1.73/kwh rates increase, call for cancellation of onerous IPP contracts

Members of Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) staged a picket today in front of the Energy Regulatory Commission office to protest the impending P1.73/kwh increase in their power rates due to recoveries applied for by Meralco at the Commission.
Meralco has filed two petitions at the ERC asking for collection of its [...]

STOP THE WAR IN MINDANAO

Proof of MNLF coddling JI and ASG must be presented; US Troops Out
As hostilities between the Philippine military and the Moro National Liberation front escalate in Mindanao, we from the Stop the War Coalition - Philippines, a broad coalition of social movements, NGOs, and other organizations, join the call [...]