Items that have been added to this site in the first half of 1999:

added on 22 June 1999

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)

added on 14 June 1999

Papers from the 1995 European Solidarity Conference on the Philippines, in Hoisdorf, Germany

added on 10 June 1999

Publications and Documents Available from Philippine Solidarity Group Netherlands

Profile of the Philippine Solidarity Group Netherlands (FGN)
Dutch version

added on 29 May 1999

Appeal to Support the Strike of the Shemberg Employees Independent Union

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

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

added on 25 May 1999

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

Profile: Consortium of BangsaMoro NGOs and POs in Mindanao

Papers from the BangsaMoro NGO-PO Leaders' Consultation
Cotabato City, 12-15 December 1998


added on 19 May 1999

Send Letters to Oppose Mindex (of Norway) Proposed Nickel Cobalt Mine in Mindoro Island
by Philippine Indigenous Peoples Links

added on 11 May 1999

Separated by Opportunity: The Impact of Overseas Migration on the Filipino Family
by Maria Fe Nicodemus, chairperson, Kakammpi

Empowering Seven Million Migrant Filipinos for the Next Millenium
Privilege Speech of Congresswoman Rosales on 10 May 1999.

added on 6 May 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)

Chronology of Events (Mapalad Case)
by the Philippine Jubilee Network

added on 3 May 1999

Legislative Agenda on Filipino Migrant Workers
by Rep. Loretta Ann P. Rosales; Party-List Representative - Akbayan

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

House Bill 7243
An Act Providing for a System of Overseas Voting for Qualified Filipinos Abroad and Appropriating Funds Therefor
by Rep. Rosales

Draft Senate Bill Prepared by the Committees on Constitutional Amendments, Revision of Codes and Laws; and Finance
An Act Providing for a System of Absentee Voting by Qualified Filipinos Abroad
with Senators Guingona, Jr., Ople, Roco, Santiago, Aquino-Oreta, and Osmeņa (J.) as authors

added on 26 April 1999

Philippine Jubilee 2000 Petition
The Freedom from Debt Coalition's signature campaign to ask the Philippine government to repeal the law providing for automatic national budget payments for debt service.

added on 23 April 1999

Articles from Philippines International Review Autumn 1998 issue:"New Challenges in Agrarian Reform".


added on 20 April 1999

Articles from Philippines International Review Spring 1998 issue:"Changing Dimensions of Philippine Elections".


added on 13 April 1999

Market-Assisted Land Reform: An Indecent Proposal
The World Bank proposed market-assisted agrarian reform will only result in transferring the cost of land acquisition from the landlords to the farmer-beneficiaries.

added on 12 April 1999

Statement of Solidarity for the Sumilao Farmers' Cause
The Lumad farmers of Sumilao, Bukidnon, are calling on the Philippine Supreme Court to reconsider its previous decision to award 144 hectares of land to their former landlord , who wants to convert it into a golf course and other commercial purposes.

added on 9 April 1999

Rosa Meneses' Plenary Address to the Second World Conference on Breast Cancer Advocacy
Rosa Meneses is a breast cancer patient and initiator of the Philippine Breast Cancer Network (PBCN). During the Second World Conference on Breast Cancer Advocacy, she presented her speech during the plenary session entitled: "Breast Cancer Advocacy Efforts from Around the World".

added on 6 April 1999

Events Calendar
Scheduled events in the solidarity network and among Philippine POs and NGOs, plus other important dates.

added on 2 April 1999

Privilege Speech of Rep. Loretta Rosales on the Impact of the Current Social and Economic Crisis Confronting Overseas Filipinos


added on 29 March 1999

European Solidarity Conference on the Philippines
A European Solidarity Conference on the Philippines will be held in Reading, UK on 10-12 September 1999.

Papers from the 1997 European Conference on the Philippines, in Zurich, Switzerland.


added on 16 March 1999

A Call to Save Samar and Leyte's Biodiversity
Elf Aquitaine's is organizing an 'Authentic Adventure' that will endanger the biodiversity of a protected rainforest area in the islands of Samar and Leyte, in the Philippines.

added on 11 March 1999

PIR's Pilot Issue (Winter 1997-98) "Human Rights: Issues and Challenges"
The Philippines International Review (PIR) is PESC-KSP's quarterly newsletter. The feature articles from PIR's very first issue are presented here in text form.

added on 8 March 1999

Support the Farmers of Kalawit in their struggle to own the land that they till.
The farmers of Kalawit town, Zamboanga del Norte province, are appealing for international support to stop the government from taking away their lands.

Report to the 55th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights (March-April 1999)
This is a report on the human rights situation in the Philippines, prepared by the Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA).

Invitation to a Public Forum on the Philippines (on 23 April 1999 in Utrecht, the Netherlands)
BISIG-Nederland and the Filippijnengroep Nederland (FGN) are organizing a public forum on the Philippines entitled: " The Estrada Government Amidst the Asian Crisis: Can It Deliver Its Promises to the Poor? "

added on 4 March 1999

Bombs are falling over the Philippines - JAS-plane still offered. (by Carina Carlstrom)
War is raging in the Philippines between the government and Moro rebels. The Swedish government should stop trying to sell its JAS plane to the Philippine Air Force.

added on 26 February 1999

Philippine International Migration: Issues and Concerns of Filipino Migrants in the Netherlands - A Summary
This article is part of the report on the Public Forum on 24 November 1997, that was organized by the Federation of Filipino Organizations in the Netherlands (FFON).

Visiting Forces Agreement: Send Letters and Faxes to Wavering Philippine Senators

added on 23 February 1999

List of Philippine Political Prisoners
From the Documentation Desk; Research, Documentation and Information Program; TASK FORCE DETAINEES OF THE PHILIPPINES-National Center. The list is as of 16 February 1999.

A List of Useful Weblinks


added on 17 February 1999

What's wrong with the Visiting Forces Agreement?
by Dr. Francisco Nemenzo, Professor of Political Science, University of the Philippines. This is an expanded version of a paper delivered to the National Defense College of the Philippines on 18 September 1998.

added on 4 February 1999

BM & DAR: A MATCH TO WATCH
An interview article with DAR Secretary Horacio "Boy" Morales, for Tambuli (Filippijnengroep Nederland, FIDOC) and Conjuncture (Institute for Popular Democracy), January 1999

"WOMEN SAY NO TO THE DEATH PENALTY"
A statement by 27 women's organizations in the Philippines.

Urgent Call for Action Against the San Roque Dam in Benguet Province, Philippines
A hydroelectric dam being constructed in the Philippines will, if not stopped, destroy the last cultural stronghold of the Ibaloi people in and around Dalupirip, Benguet Province.


added on 28 January 1999

PAHRA on the House Vote on the Death Penalty
PAHRA Press Statement, 19 January 1999