Women’s rights advocates slam Duterte ‘bragging’ about touching maid in his teens MANILA – It is disturbing and infuriating to hear President Rodrigo Duterte “brag” about attempting in his teen years to rape a housekeeper, women’s rights advocates said Sunday. Duterte recounted in a speech how he confessed to a priest of the Catholic school…
Buhay, A Teacher, Bayan Muna lead party-list race By Jerome Aning Philippine Daily Inquirer May 21, 2013 As the canvassing of votes for the party-list groups resumed, a poll watchdog on Monday called on the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to account for the 23.67 percent of election returns (ERs) that had not been electronically tabulated…
Lawmakers: Pinays still poor, abused By Paolo Romero, The Philippine Star March 9, 2013 MANILA, Philippines – Women lawmakers yesterday called on fellow Filipino women to assert their rights, saying many of them remain hungry, poor and abused under the Aquino administration. Gabriela party-list Representatives Luzviminda Ilagan and Emmerenciana de Jesus issued the statement as…
Gabriela party-list files bill to penalize online exploitation of women | Sun.Star. January 15, 2013 MANILA — Representatives of the women’s party-list group Gabriela filed on Tuesday a bill seeking to amend the Anti-Violence Against Women and Children Act to include the online exploitation of women. Gabriela party-list Representatives Luzviminda Ilagan and Emmi de Jesus…
Court issues writ vs magnetite mining in Ilocos | BusinessWorld Online Edition. May 15, 2012 THE SUPREME COURT (SC) has issued a writ of kalikasan (nature) directing mining firm Altamina Exploration and Resources, Inc., President Benigno S. C. Aquino III, and two others to reply to the petition filed by several lawmakers and local government…
Gabriela party-list lawmaker seeks protection of nurses from exploitation | Sun.Star. By Cheryl G. Cruz February 2, 2012 GABRIELA party-list Representative Emmi de Jesus wants to put a stop to the reported unscrupulous practice of many hospitals, both public and private, of using volunteerism or on-the-job training to exploit nurses. “Our nurses have been poorly…
Ecological Restoration, Disaster Preparedness Urged The Gabriela solon called on concerted efforts toward ecological restoration and disaster preparedness and urged President Aquino to order the immediate cancellation of all mining and logging operation permits in Mindanao and certify as urgent, HB5276 Mindanao River Systems Rehabilitation and Conservation Authority and HB4315 People’s Mining Bill. “This disaster…
Iloilo groups back RH bill | Sun.Star. VARIOUS groups in the city and province of Iloilo declared their support to the immediate passage of the Reproductive Health (RH) bill now pending in Congress. Government officials and employees, civil society groups, media and interfaith groups gathered for a day of the purple ribbon for RH to…
120 congressmen now support RH bill, according to unofficial count – Interaksyon.com. Lira Dalangin-Fernandez, InterAksyon.com MANILA, Philippines — By an unofficial count of some neophyte members of the House of Representatives, 120 lawmakers now support the passage of the Reproductive Health (RH) bill. In a news conference Wednesday, ACT Teachers partylist Representative Antonio Tinio said…
