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Overseas Filipinos
Action Alerts
Activities of International Partners
Materials on Estrada Impeachment
NEITHER COUP NOR OUSTER: A Call for Radical Reform
On the Participation of US troops in Military Operations against the ASG
List of Political Prisoners
The Philippine Greens Statement on the WTC attack and the US bombing of Afghanistan
Pro-War Moves of Macapagal-Arroyo Administration Compromise the National Interest
Coco Levy Updates
As Nations Sit on the Edge of War: A call for Self-examination and Soul Searching
Statement on the 11 September US Bombings
Philippine Solidarity Work in Europe: Trends and Perspectives
Conference Statement: Bayanihan International Solidarity Conference 2001
A nation in search of father Rudy, A nation search of itself
The Revolutionary Left:Back to Center Stage?
Reject the Estrada Candidates, Support the Progressives
GMA Cares for Erap, but not for Political Prisoners
Hindi pa Tapos ang Laban A Call for Continued Vigilance
People Power: A Reprise
The Camps of the Sun: The MILF Strongholds after the Military Offensive
Constitutional Accomodation of a BangsaMoro Islamic Region
The Five Basic Issues Confronting Mindanao vis-a-vis the Roles Played by the
Civil Society
Options in the Pursuit of a Just, Comprehensive and Stable Peace in Mindanao
CAFGUs: Not the Miracle Pill to Solve the MILF Rebellion
Important Considerations in the Ongoing War in Mindanao
A Call to Defend Life
AFP Casualties in the Three-Month Old AFP Offensives Against
the MILF
The MNLF's Urgent Call For
A Realistic and Pragmatic Tactical & Strategic Approach
A Ten-Point Program for Peace in Mindanao
(Perspective from the Bishops-Ulama Forum)
The Continuing Search for Sustainable Peace in Mindanao: A View from a Distance
Statement of the Bishops-Ulama Forum on the Mindanao Situation
Religious Intolerance in Mindanao
A situationer on the Mindanao Peace Crises
Peace Not War Movement (PeaceNow), Press Statement
A Statement of Concern
Urgent Appeal of the Independent Fact Fighting Committee of the GRP-MILF
Peace Talks
Bishops-Ulama Call for Ceasefire in Central Mindanao
On the Emergency Situation in Central Mindanao
Why Peace Remains Illusive in Mindanao?
CPA Welcomes Withdrawal of Endorsement of the San Roque Dam Project by the
Municipal Council of Itogon
Summary Position Paper on the San Roque Dam Project
Pastoral Letter on the Rapu-rapu Mining Case
A Statement of Concern on the Mining Act of 1995
Dismantle the Fertilizer & Pesticide Authority (FPA)
A Major Step in Stopping Cancer ! Day of Contradictions
List of Political Prisoners
Peoples Action on September 21 Condemns Raid on KPD Office
When Displacement Is A Form Of Human Rights Violation
Never Again ... Impunity
On the Violent Dispersal of Rallyists During the SONA on July 24, 2000
Philippine Human Rights Report to the 56th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights
Report of FIND to UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance
Death Penalty in the Philippines
Vigilante Groups' Revival: Back to the Dark Days of Anti-Communist Hysteria
AFAD: A Budding Federation
The Philippine Coconut Industry and the Coconut Levy
Chronology of Major Events and State Policies in the coconut industry
(1947 until 1995)
UNORKA Press Statement
CARP in its 12th Year: A Closer Examination of the Agrarian Reform Performance
State's Failure to Fulfill and Defend it's Citizens' Right to Food:
The Philippine Experience
Sustainable Agriculture, Landlessness, and Food Security
People Power: A Reprise Back to Work
Profile of our Country's Lawmakers
The Real Score (and Scourge)
Money Talks: The Midnight Napocor Power Deal
MILF Official Declaration on the International Campaign to Ban Antipersonnel Mines
Declaration of the RPM-P / RPA-ABB Against the Use and Production of Landmines
Why Reform of the WTO is the Wrong Agenda
Rise to the Challenge
People's Health in the Era of Globalization
Kalinga Declaration
on Indigenous Education and the Establishment of SÍKÄT Schools
The WTO Debacle in Seattle
AKBAYAN! Citizens’ Action Party
16 January 2002
Press Statement, Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA)
14 January 2002
Task Force Detainees of the Philippines, November 2001
18 October 2001
Akbayan, 29September 2001
September 2001
FIND Statement on the World Trade Terrorist Attack, 21 September 2001
by the Philippine Host Committee, Bayanihan International Solidarity Conference
1 October 2001
by Carlo Butalid, September 2001
Quezon City, September 2001
by Mary Aileen Bacalso, AFAD, July 2001
by Nathan Gilbert Quimpo, June 2001
Action for Economic Reforms (AER), 19 March 2001
GMA Presidency
Pahra Coordinating Committee on Political Prisoners Plus, 27 April 2001
KOMPIL II Media Release, 31 January 2001
Press Statement, Cordillera Peoples' Alliance (CPA), 23 January 2001
by Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD),
22 January 2001
War in Mindanao
by Marco Mezzera, Focus on the Global South, 5 March 2001
by Soliman M. Santos, Jr, 23 August 2000
by Fr. Eliseo R. Mercado, Jr., OMI, 29 September 2000
by Nathan Quimpo, 29 September 2000
Lourdes F. Go-Zurbano, Executive Director, ECDFC, 14 August 2000
Aide Memoire of Fr Eliseo R. Mercado Jr OMI, July 2000
Press Statement of MINJOURN and FREE, 12 July 2000
May 2000
A Chronology of Events
by the Center for Sustainable Peace and Economic Justice
18 May 2000
PhilRights, 5 June 2000
Kadtuntaya Foundation, 11 May 2000
9 May 2000
Bangsa Moro Consortium, 29 April 2000
27 April 2000
Pastoral Statement, 3 May 2000
by Faith Joan C. Mesa, in the April-December 1999 issue of the
Medical Action Group's (MAG)Progress Notes.
Environment
Cordillera Peoples Alliance, 15 September 2000
Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, 28 February 1998
Philippine Breast Cancer Network (PBCN), January 2000
Human Rights
Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD), 7 February 2001
Task Force Detainees of the Philippines, 15 November 2000
Press Statement, 20 September 2000
Editorial, ECFDC Monitor, March-April 2000
Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearance (AFAD),
International Day of the Disappeared (30 August 2000)
Commission of Human Rights, July 2000
Phil. Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA)
6 April 2000
Santos Lamban, PAHRA
Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates, 10 March 2000
by Mary Aileen D. Bacalso
Coco Levy
by Manuel Castro, PESC-KSP
Agrarian Reform / Food Security
22 November 2000
Saturnino M. Borras Jr., June 2000
Paper presented during the Asian Consultation on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights, 27-28 January 2000, Quezon City, Philippines
by Aurora A. Regalado
by Francisco G. Pascual
22 January 2001
Labor Rights and Democracy, February 2001
by Maria Christina Pascual, NAMFREL Director for NCR
by Barog Mindanao Batok sa Emergency Powers
Davao City, 24 July 2000
Joint Statement of FDC, Akbayan and Sanlakas
13 March 2000
21 March 2000 ; Geneva, Switzerland
By Walden Bello, 9-10 February 2000
Francisco Nemenzo, UP President, 5 February 2000
On the Senate's drastic cut of the UP budget
by Nymia Pimentel Simbulan, MPH.
10 December 1999
A Unity Statement of Philippine social movements, labor groups, people's
organizations and NGOs
10 December 1999
See also: Older Articles (1998-1999)