Human Rights Forum
Issue No. 2 April - June 2007

Boses ng mamamayan

Bagama’t may ilang positibong senyales ang eleksyon noong Mayo, tulad ng pagkapanalo ni Fr. Ed Panlilio laban sa mga Lapid at Pineda sa Pampanga at pagkatalo ng karamihan sa mga artistang tumakbo sa pulitika, masasabing namayani pa rin ang tradisyunal na pulitika ng karahasan, bilihan ng boto, at dayaan nitong nakaraang halalan.

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Will Never Be the Same Again

The Party-list and the 2007 Elections
By PERCIVAL CENDAñA*

 

If there is anything significant about the party-list race in the recent elections, it is the
conspicuous change in the terrain of the party-list contest. The change in this case could easily be characterized as “inevitable,” given that the party-list contest is set against the marauding backdrop of Philippine elections.

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Pati ba naman ang party-list hindi pinatawad?
Ni NYMIA PIMENTEL SIMBULAN Dr. P.H.

Tapos na ang eleksyon! Nadeklara na ang karamihan sa mga kandidatong nakakuha ng pinakamaraming bilang ng boto sa pamamaraang malinis, marumi at/o kumbinasyon ng dalawa.

Nakapagbigay na ang presidente ng kanyang “State of the Nation Address” (SONA) na tulad ng inaasahan ay batbat ng mga pangakong malamang ay mapapako at mga panaginip na nananatiling panaginip. Nagsimula na ring gumulong ang pagbalangkas at paggawa ng mga inisyatiba at batas – importante man o walang kwenta – sa pagbubukas ng ika-14 na Kongreso.

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Cheaper Medicines Bill:
Isang hakbang tungo sa makatarungang presyo ng gamot
Ni candy diez*

Isang hapon matapos ang pamimigay ng mga lobbying paraphernalia sa loob ng Kongreso, lumapit sa akin ang isa sa mga lola na kasapi ng aming multi-sectoral network.

 “ Sana ipasa na nila nga-yon ang bill natin, makun-sensya naman sila.” Natigilan ako at nag-isip kung paano ko sasagutin ang kanyang komento. Nagkasya na lamang ako sa pagsasabing, “ Sana nga po‚ ‘Nay.”

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ANG PANUKALANG
‘CARP EXTENSION WITH REFORMS’
Ni EUGENE TECSON*

Ang Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program o CARP ay pangunahing programa para sa proteksyon ng mga pang-ekonomiko at panlipunang karapatang may kinalaman sa kaunlaran ng kanayunan sa Pilipinas.

Ayon sa Saligang Batas ng 1987, sa ilalim ng Seksyon 4 (Repormang Pansakahan at Panlikas na Kayamanan), Artikulo XIII (Katarungang Panlipunan at mga Karapatang Pantao),

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The Anti-Mining Road show
Protest Activities during the 7 th Asia Pacific Mining Conference

In its bid to lure top foreign investors to the country’s mining industry, the Arroyo government and the Chamber of Mines hosted the 7 th Asia-Pacific Mining Conference on June 5-7 at the Makati Shangri-la Hotel.

This high profile event was also organized by the ASEAN Federation of Mining Associations (AFMA), whose current chair Benjamin Philip Romualdez 1 is also the president of the Chamber of Mines of the Philippines. AFMA members were also the main delegates to the conference.

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Pakikisalamuha sa mga TAONG “BUHAY-Daga”
Ni katrina badon canonce*

Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of others.

Albert Einstein

Sa dami kong problema, ngayon ko lang napagtanto na maswerte pa rin talaga ako.

Ika-9 ng Mayo, 2007. Iyon na ang itinakdang araw para sa aming pagbisita sa ilang komunidad sa Maynila. Kasama ang mga taga-KPML (Kongreso ng Pagkakaisa ng mga Maralita ng Lungsod), ilang staff ng PhilRights at ang tatlong mga kapwa ko interns na galing UP-Manila, tinungo namin ang dalawang komunidad na sumasalamin sa tunay na katayuan ng buhay ng maraming Pilipino.

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Schools open amid textbook boo-boos

Asmore than 20 million Filipino students trooped back to school this June, the Department of Education again found itself in the middle of a controversy over its multibillion-peso textbook project.

Allegations that the textbooks provided by DepEd are “replete with major historical, technical, subs-tantive, grammatical errors and discrepancies” resurfaced, even as some publishing companies complained before the Supreme Court regarding alleged irregularities in the textbook bidding process.

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Legal battle over Milk Code continues

FOr milk companies, it was the worst of timings.

On June 19, 2007, the Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD) ordered the recall of millions of units (cans and cartons) of infant milk products made by Wyeth, a US-based company. The milk products “might have been contaminated,” having been exposed to the elements during a strong typhoon that hit the country late last year, Health Undersecretary Alexander Padilla said.

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