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Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Luz Ilagan today renewed calls for the demilitarization of Lumad communities amid an intensified anti-insurgency campaign that has resulted to the forced evacuation of Lumad communities and the transformation of Lumad schools into military barracks.  read more »

Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Luz Ilagan assailed today President Aquino’s continued consent to the unhampered port calls of US high powered military warships and submarines. “We are back to where we were over twenty years ago.”  read more »

Gabriela Women’s Party sympathizes with Ces Delos Santos, mother of missing baby Gabriel, as it expresses alarm at the “kidnap my baby” angle brought about by the irresponsible statement of an official of Sta. Teresita Hospital .

This tendency to accuse the victim rather than direct all efforts for swift and fair investigation conveniently diverts the issue and exonerates Sta. Teresita Hospital from accountability.  read more »

“The Independent Oil Price Review Committee bared itself as a co-conspirator of the Aquino administration in defending oil companies’ greed,” commented GWP Rep. Emmi De Jesus on the IOPRC report that declared oil companies not guilty of overpricing and that the Oil Deregulation Law is working.  read more »

“The Independent Oil Price Review Committee bared itself as a co-conspirator of the Aquino administration in defending oil companies’ greed,” commented GWP Rep. Emmi De Jesus on the IOPRC report that declared oil companies not guilty of overpricing and that the Oil Deregulation Law is working.  read more »

“In the midst of poverty and joblessness, while the women have yet to recover from floods, the House of Representatives is tackling the Milk Code amendments and corporatization of government hospitals, a dangerous tandem that if approved and passed, will surely exterminate the right to health and survival specially for the marginalized sectors.”  read more »

Amid the recent spate of oil price increases, Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Luz Ilagan called on the Independent Oil Price Review Committee to immediately submit its much delayed report on allegations of overpricing by big oil companies as she pushed anew for the repeal of the Oil Deregulation Law.  read more »

“A government that has no power to question decisions by multinational oil companies to raise their pump prices has no service to the people who are already overburdened and stumbling from reeling prices after the recent floods and amid massive unemployment and depressingly low wages. People in calamity-stricken areas are yet to recover from floods due to heavy monsoon rains two weeks ago but oil companies threw away all restraint and coldheartedly increased oil prices,” said GWP Rep. Emmi De Jesus.  read more »

“I challenge Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno to uphold the Supreme Court’s 14-0 decision to distribute Hacienda Luisita to legitimate farmer beneficiaries. Deliver justice to the suffering farm workers, do not be an accessory to their exploitation. We will keep an eye on the new Chief Justice and her actions on the Hacienda Luisita case,” GWP Rep. Emmi De Jesus said.  read more »