Untitled. By Germelina Lacorte Inquirer Mindanao Vice mayor Rodrigo Duterte DAVAO CITY, Philippines—Davao City Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said he will recommend the immediate pullout of military detachments and patrol bases from civilian communities here following Saturday’s grenade-throwing incident that injured 48 people, 18 of them children, in the city’s Paquibato District. But Duterte, who visited the area on Tuesday afternoon, also demanded that the New People’s Army, if indeed it was behind the attack on a gym barely three meters from a Philippine Army detachment, to explain why they exploded a grenade in a place with many people. “If they were angry with the detachment, why would they target civilians?” Duterte said. Even if the military detachment was near the gym in violation of the international humanitarian law, “it was not an excuse for them to bomb civilians,” Duterte added. As of 2 p.m. Follow Us Recent Stories: Tags: Communist Insurgency , Military , News , Politics , Regions.
Untitled. ByKristine Felisse MangunayPhilippine Daily Inquirer AP File photo MANILA, Philippines—The militant transport group Pinagkaisang Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Operator Nationwide (Piston) is definitely filing a separate petition for a fare rate increase within the year, an official of the group said on Wednesday. Piston, however, has yet to determine the timing of the filing of the petition with the Land Transportation Franchising Regulatory Board, said George San Mateo, Piston national president, during the weekly Fernandina forum in Club Filipino in San Juan City.
San Mateo refused to reveal the additional amount Piston would be seeking in the petition but said their group would ask for an “across-the-board” fare increase. Follow Us Recent Stories: Complete stories on our Digital Edition newsstand for tablets, netbooks and mobile phones; 14-issue free trial. Tags: fare , Metro , News , Transport Factual errors? Untitled. House of Representatives. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO/ARNOLD ALMACEN MANILA, Philippines—The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed on final reading a bill seeking to guarantee the rights and benefits of household workers in the Philippines. House Bill 6144, approved on third reading, provides minimum labor standards, including minimum wage setting, regulating working hours, provision of insurance and leave benefits for househelp. Domestic helpers in Metro Manila will get a minimum salary of P3,000 per month, P2,000 in chartered cities and first class municipalities and P1,000 in other municipalities, says the bill, authored by Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and his son Representative Diosdado Macapagal Arroyo of Camarines Sur’s First District.
They are also entitled to a 13th month pay and should be covered by the Social Security System and all the benefits provided under Republic Act No. 8282, as amended. Untitled. Editor’s Note: This is the first in a week-long series from Lars Døssing Rosenmeier, who is writing from the Middle East – North Africa (MENA) Regional Seminar in Amman, Jordan. The seminar is part of the European Commission-supported project, Non-State Actors, which you can read more about here. Dr Fatima Hajji was one of 48 Bahraini doctors who were arrested and tortured during the Arab Spring uprising in spring of 2011. Now wanting to work to help other victims of torture, Dr Hajji is, together with the rest of the newly founded BRAVO organisation, working to establish a rehabilitation centre for torture victims in Bahrain.
Dr Haji, who has only recently had her travel ban lifted, joined more than a dozen other professionals this week at the Middle East – North Africa (MENA) Regional Seminar in Amman, Jordan. Dr Joost den Otter, IRCT’s Clinical Director and Head of Health Team, speaks during the seminar Sunday in Amman, Jordan. Untitled. By: InterAksyon.com September 4, 2012 3:31 PM InterAksyon.comThe online news portal of TV5 (Updated 4:35 p.m.) A House member asked President Benigno Aquino III to stop all mining activities in the Zamboanga Peninsula after an eleven-year-old boy was killed in an ambush while being brought to school by his father, an anti-mining leader. "I also call on President Aquino to immediately order a moratorium on all mining activities in the whole Zamboange Peninsula to prevent further escalation of violence in the area," Ifugao Representative Teddy Brawner-Baguilat said in a statement on Monday.
Baguilat made this remark on Monday after unidentified assailants shot Timuay Locenio M. Manda, a leader of an anti-mining indigenous peoples' group in Zamboanga del Sur, as he was bringing his eldest son to school at around 7:20 Tuesday morning. The incident also prompted Baguilat, Chair of the House Committee on National Cultural Communities or IPs, to investigate the matter on the same panel.
Untitled. MANILA, Philippines -- Timuay Locencio Manda, the anti-mining chieftain of the Subanen tribe, was ambushed by unidentified men at 7:20 am, September 4, in Barangay Conacon in the town of Bayog, Zamboanga del Sur, Amnesty International reported. His son, 11-year-old Jordan Manda, died in the ambush. BIG LOSS. Jordan, 11-year-old son of a tribal chieftain in Zamboanga del Sur, is a big loss to the family and community.
Photo by Vicky Cajandig “Jordan suffered a fatal wound on the back, instantly killing him. "In my effort to assert our rights and to protect our people and ancestral domain, my beloved son was sacrificed. Timuay Manda told groups supportive of his cause that he has been receiving death threats for the past 3 years because of his fierce opposition to extractive industries in the area, ATM said. Claimant of ancestral domain claim Timuay Manda has been leading the Subanen tribe's campaign to claim and protect their ancestral domain from mining and logging operations. Untitled. Untitled. The so-called informal technical working group (TWG) has been suggested by RH bill advocates, including one of its authors, Senior Deputy Majority Leader Janette L.
Garin (1st district, Iloilo), to address delays due to what she claimed as "parliamentary tactics" of those who are against it. Privilege speeches have been used to delay the start of the period of amendments to House Bill (HB) No. 4244, or the RH measure, last month. The priority bill, also called "Responsible Parenthood, Reproductive Health and Population and Development Act of 2011," calls for birth control through the use of both the natural and artificial contraceptive methods.
The proposed informal TWG will seek to resolve issues, such as the promotion and uncontrolled distribution of contraceptives, which opponents claimed encourage promiscuity and increase sexual activities among the youth. Ms. Ms. Garin, however, said each beneficiaries will have the option to use contraceptives for free or the natural method. Ms. Ms. Untitled. Untitled. MANILA, Philippines – The police chiefs of two neighboring towns in Laguna were killed while another policeman sustained injuries when a speeding passenger jeepney smashed into their patrol car parked along the highway in Calauan town early yesterday morning, authorities said.
Senior Inspector Alex Marasigan, police chief of Victoria town, sustained head and body injuries while Senior Inspector Santiago Cuntapay, police chief of Calauan, had chest and head injuries. Marasigan died on the spot while Cuntapay died while being operated on at the Asian Hospital in Parañaque City. PO3 Rodel Reyes Cardel, driver of the police mobile car, sustained minor injuries.
The driver of the passenger jeepney, Leonilo Resurreccion, 53, surrendered after the incident. Senior Superintendent Gilbert Cruz, Laguna police director, said the incident happened near the police detachment in Barangay Bangyas, Calauan town at around 5 a.m. yesterday. Nation ( Article MRec ), pagematch: 1, sectionmatch: 1. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman The P44.25-billion proposed budget for the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program in 2013 would allow the Department of Social Welfare and Development to add some 800,000 beneficiaries to the CCT and help as well other poverty-reduction programs of the government, said Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman. In justifying the increase in the CCT budget, Soliman said the CCT, also known as the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Progam (4Ps), constituted 75 percent of the DSWD’s entire proposed budget of P55.97 billion for next year. She said this would cover all the 3.5-million target household-beneficiaries for 2013.
The same budget has already been approved in the House committee on appropriations. Both the Senate and the House have scheduled the DSWD budget for plenary presentation. Soliman said the proposed 2013 DSWD budget was P7.3 billion, or 15 percent, more than last year. Untitled. As the world commemorates the International Day of the Disappeared, the Philippines has yet to enact a law penalizing enforced disappearances. Neither has the Senate ratified the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance since the Philippines is not even a signatory.
Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA) secretary general Rose Trajano blames this on a lack of political will. Bills to criminalize enforced disappearances, or the secret "arrest, detention, abduction or any other form of deprivation of liberty" by agents of the State have already been approved on final reading at both Houses of Congress. The proposed law makes it government policy to prohibit enforced disappearances, requires the government to keep a list of detainees and detention centers, and recognizes command responsibility for officers whose men engage in enforced disappearances.
Untitled. Amnesty International Philippines Press Release 4 September 2012 Amnesty International Philippines called on President Aquino and newly appointed DILG Secretary Mar Roxas to investigate the killing of 11 year old, Jordan Manda, eldest son of Timuay Lucenio Manda, a Subanen tribe chieftain in Bayog, Zamboanga del Sur, also wounded during an ambush attack by unidentified assailants early today, 4 September 2012. “The killing of Jordan Manda and wounding of Timuay Lucenio Manda must be rigorously investigated so that the perpetrators of the crime will be brought to justice. The killing of Jordan Manda, groomed to be a next Timuay, is a painful reminder that Indigenous Peoples are not protected. According to reports, the Subanen leader, also a member Amnesty International Philippines, was ambushed on his way to take his son to school.
“Amnesty International supports Timuay Manda in calling for justice for his son and his people. Untitled. By: InterAksyon.com September 4, 2012 3:30 PM One of two masked men on a motorcycle points what witnesses claim was a taser at a youth activist who had joined 11 lumad families protesting human rights violations at the Bukidnon provincial capitol on Tuesday. (photo courtesy of Rural Missionaries of the Philippines) InterAksyon.comThe online news portal of TV5 MANILA, Philippines - At least eight masked men on motorcycles harassed indigenous people and youth activists who were protesting human rights violations, at the grounds of the Bukidnon provincial capitol on Monday.
The masked men also destroyed an amplifier and snatched streamers and tarpaulins. Photos taken by the activists and posted on Facebook the next day show two of the men riding in tandem on a motorcycle, the driver clad in camouflage shorts and an olive drab sweater; back-rider wore a camouflage shirt and pointed at student activists with what witnesses claimed was a taser. Untitled. MANILA, Philippines - As the country marks the 40th anniversary of martial law this month, activists held a protest rally at Mendiola Bridge on Monday to denounce the Aquino administration for the unmonitored withdrawals from former first lady and now Congresswoman Imelda Marcos' account at Philippine Veterans Bank.
Members of the Samahan ng mga Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (Selda) said the Php 36.55 million Marcos ill-gotten wealth under the former first lady's name is down a little over R1 million despite the garnishment order of the Sandiganbayan. Earlier in August, the martial law victims suffered another setback after the Singapore Court awarded the $23 million of the Marcoses' ill-gotten wealth to the Lucio Tan-led Philippine National Bank (PNB). Selda claimed that Tan is a known Marcos crony. The group maintained that impunity still reigns after decades of struggling for justice.
"All we get from the Aquino government are reports of failure after failure. Untitled. The leadership of the House of Representatives is planning to organize an informal meeting with senators, Palace officials and Church officials in a bid to settle differences on the controversial reproductive health (RH) bill once and for all. "There were unofficial proposals to form a technical working group composed of the Executive, some members of the Senate and Congress as well, to include what we call the 'reasonable' members of [the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines], and the authors of the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Care Act," Iloilo Rep.
Janette Garin told reporters Tuesday. The congresswoman, one of the RH bill’s authors, said that the group would discuss amendments to the measure that will be acceptable to all parties. “Sa pag-aaway kasi, nasasakripisyo iyong panukalang batas. Nauuwi lang sa name-calling and inisan. Kaya baka naman puwedeng umupo para once and for all, masettle na itong amendments,” she said. Possible amendments Albay Rep. Untitled. By: InterAksyon.com September 4, 2012 12:34 PM InterAksyon.comThe online news portal of TV5 (Updated 3:21 p.m.) Unidentified assailants shot a leader of an anti-mining indigenous peoples' group in Zamboanga del Sur, as he was bringing his eldest son to school at around 7:20 Tuesday morning.
Timuay Locenio M. Manda, a Subanen leader and head claimant of the Bayog Ancestral Domain, suffered minor wounds and is now safe, but his 11-year-old son Jordan Manda was killed instantly after being shot in the back, an anti-mining group said in a report. Army spokesman Maj. Harold Cabunoc said local police are investigating the ambush. The incident took place on the road between Barangays Conacon and Bubuan of the Municipality of Bayog, the report released by Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM) said. Police and military personnel in the region are "friendly" with the tribes, Jayvee Garganera, ATM National Coordinator, told InterAksyon.com in a phone interview. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled.
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