Activity Updates


September 2010 - Launch of the maiden issue of the Focus on the Global South Policy Review

September 19 - In Malaysia will be held the forum called "Regional Strategy Meeting on Emerging Social and Cultural Concerns in ASEAN: Climate Change, South East Asian Peoples’ Right to Information, Labor Migration and Domestic Work and Platforms for Civil Society Engagement with the ASEAN."  Focus Philippines will make a presentation on "Building a Case for an ASEAN Protocol on Freedom of Information"

September 23 - 26
- Asean People's Forum in Hanoi, Vietnam. Fore more information, please send inquiries to the following: <apfhanoi-pc@aseanpeoplesforum.net>, <apfhanoi-ws@aseanpeoplesforum.net>. Ms Dorothy Guerrero, who is in the Bangkok office of Focus, seats in the Program Committee.

September 27 - October 1 - Freedom of Information Advocacy Week

September 23 - FOI Forum
     
September 27 - R2KRN will visit the Senate to renew the FOI campaign
     
September 28 - R2KRN will meet with Representatives of the Lower House

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Focus on the Philippines: Number 29 PDF Print E-mail

Big Pharma: Part of the Problem of part of the solution?

By Walden Bello

In this issue:

We feature the speech delivered by Professor Walden Bello last July 14, 2003 as part of the debate o­n patents, drug development and HIV/Aids at theXV International Aids Conference in Bangkok, Thailand.

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Focus on the Philippines: Number 28 PDF Print E-mail

The ‘terrorists’ in Iraq : Support for the illegal war-not pull-out-exposes us to ‘terrorism’ 

By Herbert Docena 

In this Issue: 

Ten more members of the Philippine Humanitarian Contingent in Iraq are expected to arrive today. According to news reports from Baghdad, the remaining 32 other members will be flying back to the country shortly, thus signaling the full withdrawal of Philippine troops from Iraq. The entire country now awaits with bated-breath the homecoming of Angelo dela Cruz, the truck driver and father of 8, whose captivity moved the nation and reinvigorated the debate o­n the war and the occupation of Iraq.  

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Focus on the Philippines: Number 27 PDF Print E-mail

Meditations of a Single Day

By Renato Redentor Constantino 

In this Issue: 

Constantino shares an eventful day in Hong Kong with hope-filled anectodes about overcoming adversaries no matter how powerful they are. The reported mobilization in Hong Kong with numbers reaching close to half a million protestors is impressive. Red’s narrative is an important insight into the prevailing political climate in Hong Kong seven years after the historic handover to China. Trade campaigners around the globe are looking at Hong Kong-- the site of the 6th Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization in 2005-- as the next major convergence point of anti-WTO, anti-globalization protests. It would be useful to pause and reflect o­n the sort of issues that are closest to the hearts and minds of HK residents today and how to link their concerns to issues of trade and globalization, if we are hoping for a repeat of the "mammoth demonstration o­n July 1" with its characteristic mix of discipline and determination next year. 

Red Constantino writes a regular column for the paper TODAY and its o­nline partner, abs-cbnnews.com where this piece originally appeared (Op-Ed, TODAY/abs-cbnnews.com. July 12, 2004 

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?section=Opinion&OID=54976

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Focus on the Philippines: Number 26 PDF Print E-mail

War Now, Pay Later 

In choosing the wrong side yet again, President Arroyo may also be jeopardizing the country¹s future relations with an independent Iraq. Much more than Angelo dela Cruz¹s life is at stake. 

By Herbert Docena* 

IN A DILAPIDATED HOSPITAL IN BAGHDAD just before the war last year, I met a nurse who suddenly started crying uncontrollably when she learned I¹m a Filipino. She suddenly remembered her colleague ­ o­ne of the thousands of Filipino nurses who were hired by the Iraqi government in droves in the 70s. 

They had become very close and somehow, the torrent of memories with her old Pinoy friend became too much too bear and the tears just started flowing. 

I went back to Iraq for the third time last March and the reaction ­ when I told another Iraqi that I was Filipino ­ was markedly different: After asking whether the Philippines is part of the Coalition of the Willing, he threatened to kidnap me. 

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Focus on the Philippines: Number 25 PDF Print E-mail
Bush and GMA's War is not the Filipinos' War:   It is the Philippine Government that is holding Angelo dela Cruz Hostage

By Iraq Solidarity Campaign







Candle light vigil in Manila

In this issue:

The hostage-taking of Angelo dela Cruz, an overseas Filipino worker in Iraq last Thursday (July 8, 2004), has put the national spotlight o­n the war in Iraq and the fate of the 4,000 filipinos working there. Unless the Philippine government withdraws the 51-strong Philippine contingent in Iraq, dela Cruz will be executed. Unmoved by the incident and despite growing public opinion favoring withdrawal of the troops in order to save Angelo del Cruz, the Philippine government has maintained its stand against the pull-out of the troops with the no justification other than saying "we will not give in to the demands of the terrorists". Amidst repeated calls from government for the public to "just pray for Angelo" and a news blackout, various groups have gone to the streets, holding vigils and mass actions to demand the immediate withdrawal of Philippine troops in Iraq. In this issue, we feature the statement issued by Iraq Solidarity Campaign and a press release featuring international solidarity messages for Angelo.


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