Last April I was selected to speak at the United Nations to discuss the content of the sustainable development goals. As a child, I couldn’t dream of even visiting the UN. But nor did I dream that I would become a migrant domestic worker and suffer exploitation and abuse.
IFPRS 2015 will be held 17 November at the Bahay ng Alumni, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines. The festival aims to showcase the groundswell of global resistance against renewed imperialist offensives that threaten peoples rights across the globe.
Public Statement of the International Festival for People’s Rights and Struggles (IFPRS 2015) Manila 17 November 2015 The global capitalist system is in deep crisis the symptoms of which manifest in its persistent attempts to reinvent itself through a new wave of neoliberal offensives. Neoliberal policies have now evolved into new trends of profit accumulation … Continue reading
17 NOVEMBER, MANILA – A day ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders summit in Manila, some 600 local and international activists warned against APEC and its policies that will only worsen poverty and the plunder of natural resources around the globe. Activists and rights advocates from various parts of the world gathered for the International … Continue reading
Some 350 global activists from 36 countries today posed a collective challenge to world leaders that will be meeting next week for the Association of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. Malcom Guy, a progressive Canadian film and television director, led delegates from more than 91 international organisations in the opening of the International League … Continue reading
The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) today announced that weeklong protests are being readied in time for the arrival of US President Barack Obama and the participants of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Economic Leaders Meeting this November. Bayan also warned the Aquino government from undertaking repressive measures that aim to suppress criticism of the annual … Continue reading
After almost a decade of painstaking negotiations, countries involved in the TransPacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) have recently finalized the deal during its meeting in Atlanta last October. This trade deal is represents 40% of the global GDP or 25.5% of the world’s total trade volume under the control of corporations through imposing stricter rules on intellectual property rights, state-owned companies, government procurement, and investment protection. Continue reading
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA — Marissa Ejanel, 27, a Manobo from White Culaman village, Kitaotao, Bukidnon, can speak Tagalog fluently, and although her vocabulary sometimes runs short, she can articulate her thoughts on allegations against the Lumad and their schools in Mindanao. “It is not true that we are members of the … Continue reading
International Festival for Peoples Rights and Struggles (IFPRS 2015) 