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Below are articles which have come from the Section "Announcements and Statements" from the period up to December 1999.

Press Freedom

On the Sale of the Manila Times
Press Statement of Malou Mangahas, Editor in Chief, The Manila Times, 20 July 1999

Press Freedom is the Issue
Statement of the Teaching Staff of the UP Diliman College of Mass Communication
July 20, 1999

Now More than Ever, Fight for Press Freedom
Pooled Editorial of the College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP), July 1999



Charter Change

Sense and Nonsense about Foreign Investors and the Constitution
by Walden Bello, September 1999

CONCORD OR DISCORD? PADAYON Statement on the Cha-Cha
17 September 1999

Oppose Erap's Cha Cha
from Dyaryo Akbayan, July-October 1999

Reject Pro-Foreign and Pro-Elite Agenda;Reject the Estrada Charter
by the REJECT Cha-Cha Movement (Reject Erap Charter Movement)



Public Forum on the Philippines (Utrecht, the Netherlands, 23 April 1999)

Urban Poor Issues and Concerns
by Gwen Ngolaban, Executive Director, Fellowship for Organizing Endeavors (FORGE)

The Difficult Challenge of Agrarian Reform, Food Security and Poverty Alleviation Under the Estrada Administration
by Enrico Cabanit, Spokesperson, Banana Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Association, Inc. (BARBAI)

Invitation to a Public Forum on the Philippines(on 23 April 1999 in Utrecht, the Netherlands)

Legislative Agenda on Filipino Migrant Workers
by Rep. Loretta Ann P. Rosales

Prospects for Poverty Reduction Under the Estrada Administration
by Horacio R. Morales Jr; Secretary, Department of Agrarian Reform

Advancing Gender Concerns in the Estrada Administration
by Rep. Patricia M. Sarenas; Party-List Representative - Abanse!Pinay

Agrarian Reform

Market-Assisted Land Reform: An Indecent Proposal

Statement of Solidarity for the Sumilao Farmers' Cause

Chronology of the Sumilao Farmers' Struggle

An Interview with DAR Secretary Morales

The Small Coconut Farmers' Struggle to Recover the P100 Billion Coconut Levy Funds
by the Pambansang Koalisyon ng mga Samahan ng mga Magsasaka at Manggagawa sa Niyugan (PKSMMN)

Human Rights

List of Political Prisoners (as of November 10, 1999)
National Center, Task Force Detainees of the Philippines

Report to the 55th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights (March-April 1999)

"Women Say No to the Death Penalty"

PAHRA on the House Vote on the Death Penalty

FIND National Assembly

ECPAT Press Release on the Death Penalty

PAHRA Human Rights Awards

Debt Relief/Jubilee 2000 Campaign

An Invitation to Participate in the Philippine Jubilee Network

Appeal for Solidarity for the Philippine Jubilee Call for Debt Relief

Joint Statement on the Occasion of the June 1999 G8 Summit in Cologne, Germany
by the Philippine-Asia Jubilee Campaign Against the Debt (PAJCAD), Philippine Jubilee Network (PJN) and the Tri-People Jubilee Movement (TJM)

Visiting Forces Agreement

What's wrong with the Visiting Forces Agreement?

Letter to Philippine Senators asking them not to Ratify the VFA
by the Federación de Asociaciones de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos

VFA Equals Cancer
by the Philippine Breast Cancer Network (PBCN)

Health and Environment

Rosa Meneses' Plenary Address to the Second World Conference on Breast Cancer Advocacy

The FPA's Role in the Rise of Cancer
by the Philippine Breast Cancer Network (PBCN)

Plenary Address of Rosa Meneses During the World Conference on Breast Cancer
27 July 1999

Campaign Against the Coal-fired Power Plant in Negros Occidental: A Project Brief
Prepared by the Negrosanons against the Coal-Fired Power Plant (NACP)
13 August 1999

Erap's Scrapping of Mining Law is Justified
by Danny Meneses, Co-Founder, Philippine Breast Cancer Network
August 1999

Bombs are falling over the Philippines- JAS-plane still offered

Bangsa Moro NGOs and POs Form Consortium

What is Mass Housing all about then?
from Dyaryo Akbayan, July-October 1999