Living in the Shadows Another study of Balay, this time in collaboration with the International Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC) has been published. The study looks at the phenomenon of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and armed conflict in NPA areas. You can download the research using the link at the end of this page. Below is a brief description of the
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Terminated Peace Talks, Intensified Armed Conflict: What is to be done? By Soliman M. Santos, Jr. Naga City, 27 May 2013 (55th birth anniversary of the late Jesse M. Robredo) For all intents and purposes, the peace negotiations between the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), as we have known it over
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Falsely charged labor leaders plea for investigation, cries due process Falsely charged labor leaders sought court intervention to drop counts of criminal charges by members of AFP in a preliminary hearing last March 7 in Labo, Camariners Norte Regional Trial Court. In their pleading, abducted and detained Randy Vegas and Raul Camposano, both labor leaders and members Confederation for Unity,
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Workers face more malicious charges under Aquino-CTUHR Malicious filing of criminal cases (criminalization) against workers and unionists intensified under Aquino according to labor NGO, Center for Trade Union and Human Rights from an average of 7 cases per year between 2004-2009 to an average of 12 cases per year between 2010 to 2011. CTUHR documentation also showed that the number
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NPA twin attacks in Bukidnon violate human rights — AFP Amanda Fernandez, GMA News February 20, 2013 The Philippine military condemned on Wednesday the twin attacks by suspected New People’s Army rebels on two plantations in Bukidnon on Tuesday night, describing the raids as violation of human rights. In a statement sent via e-mail, Armed Forces spokesperson Col. Arnulfo Burgos
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More than action, we need political will The Children’s Legal Rights and Development Center, Inc. (CLRD) condemns in strongest term the massacre of members of the B’laan tribe on 18 October 2012 in Kiblawan, Davao del Sur. The killing was beyond inhumane, a violation not only of the human rights of the victims but is also perceived as an attack
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PHILIPPINES: Hooded witness testifies on false murder charges (Hong Kong, July 17, 2012) Five months after a prosecutor dismissed the fabricated murder charges on 72 activists for lack of “probable cause,” one of them spoke to the AHRC in an interview. He recounted how a prosecutor allowed a hooded witness to testify in the criminal investigation to prosecute them. When
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Ano bang alam mo tungkol sa Martial Law? Published @ youtube Apr 29, 2012 by subversivelives Let the Filipino youth know that during the Marcos years, there was dictatorship, there was revolution – a revolution enlisting the participation not of a few but by millions of Filipinos. Subversive Lives is a book that recounts the experiences of a family during
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Why would the Army abduct Jonas Burgos?. BY GLENDA M. GLORIA, RAPPLER.com April 28, 2012 MANILA, Philippines – Sometime in 2006, an Army battalion in the northern province of Bulacan was alerted about communist infiltration in its ranks. A young lieutenant was supposedly feeding guerrillas sensitive intelligence data from the military. The Army then plotted to spy on its own.
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A family’s—and nation’s—story. By Rina Jimenez-David Philippine Daily Inquirer April 23, 2012 I think it’s valid to say that not one among us in the graduating class of Maryknoll College High School 1972 would have thought that our classmate, Cristina Pargas, would end up eventually joining the New People’s Army, losing her husband who was an NPA commander, and then
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