CLIMATE REALITY, CRISIS YET TO BE ADDRESSED Sign People’s Survival Fund Bill, Aquino urged Metro Manila and many surrounding provinces have been experiencing heavier and longer precipitation for almost a week now. Storm surges have gone beyond the usual areas and communities which never experienced flooding are facing a new challenge alien to them. “This is the ‘new normal’. We
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Gov’t bringing home injured OFW from Saudi after netizens‘ campaign InterAksyon.com May 16, 2012 MANILA, Philippines — Two years after he suffered debilitating burns after he was electrocuted at work, and weeks after fellow overseas Filipino workers and netizens appealed for help on his behalf, Alfredo Salmos will finally be coming home, Vice President Jejomar Binay announced on Wednesday. Salmos,
Read more‘Sendong’ victims to get houses from government. Philippine Daily Inquirer March 6, 2012 Vice President Jejomar Binay has approved the purchase of seven relocation sites in northern Mindanao and the Visayas for the construction of 15,000 new homes for victims of Tropical Storm “Sendong.” Binay, who is also chairman of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC), said his
Read moreCivil society from ten Southeast Asia countries has successfully held ASEAN Civil Society (ACSC)/ASEAN People’s Forum (APF) in Jakarta, 3-5 May 2011. More than 1.200 people gathered to formulate feedbacks for the delegations who are about to participate at the summit in Jakarta started on May 7. Principally, the participants of ACSC/APF deliver the following recommendations: First, the people of
Read moreSource: http://www.chr.gov.ph CHR Chairperson Loretta “Etta” Rosales in April 29, 2011 immediately directed CHR-Region Xl Office to dispatch a Quick Reaction Team (QRT) to investigate the killing of Florita “Nang Flor” Caya, General Manager of a local indigenous peoples’ organization United Tribal Council of Elders and Leaders (UTCEL) and Vice-President of a national rural peasant women organization Lakas ng Kababaihang
Read morehttp://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/boediono-urges-greater-role-for-people-in-asean/438984 by Arientha Primanita The public must be encouraged to play a greater role in shaping the future of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations if the bloc is to shed its image as a staid state-centric organization, the government said on Tuesday. Speaking at the opening of the Asean Civil Society Conference and Asean Peoples’ Forum 2011, Vice President
Read moreby Rod Rivera Dekonztruktschon April 11, Malacanang, was in qualms to agree in giving the former Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos a space in the heroes hall. The reason is that he was awarded a medal of valor for his honorable military service, by President Diosdado Macapagal. Likewise, PNoy ordered Vice President Jejomar Binay to come up with a recommendation
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