Women held protest today at the Lung Center of the Philippines, the National Kidney Institute and the Philippine Heart Center raising their voices against the planned corporatization and privatization of government hospitals.
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“The President’s human rights record speaks for itself with 70 persons tortured, 12 victims of enforced disappearance, 114 victims of extrajudicial killing, 127 victims of frustrated extrajudicial killing, and scores of other human rights violations under his administration. These plus his failure to arrest Gen. Jovito Palparan and immediate prosecution of Gloria Arroyo, are clear evidences of his administration’s endorsement of impunity and human rights violations.”
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Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Luz Ilagan today warned against proposals to legalize prostitution in the Philippines following a statement from the United Nations recommending the legalization of prostitution amid an increase in HIV cases in the country.
“The legalization of prostitution will not in anyway ensure the protection of women, children and men forced to engage in the flesh trade. Legalization will not guarantee protection against sexually transmitted infection and HIV.”
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Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Luz Ilagan expressed today her outrage and condemnation at the death of Juvy Capion, 27 and her sons Pop, 13 and John, 8 amid heightened military attacks against anti-mining tribal leaders in Mindanao. Juvy is the wife of B’laan leader Daguil Capion, know to have been opposing the operation of Sagittarius Mines Inc in their area.
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“The approval of HB 6455 foretells the exacerbation of the Philippine health care system as the Aquino intends to spend no more than P1.10 per Filipino each day for health care services in 2013. Children are dying of easily preventable and curable illnesses like tuberculosis, bronchitis, pneumonia, dengue and diarrhea. Worse maternal mortality rate has increased from 162 for every 100,000 live births in 2006 to 221 in 2010 even as the continually increasing Conditional Cash Transfer budget supposedly aims to reduce maternal mortality,” declared Rep. read more »
Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Luz Ilagan assailed today plans to make use of the Subic Bay International Airport in joint operations of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the United States forces.
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“The exposure of children to high-powered American war machines is a subtle way of inculcating into their young minds the culture of war,” said GWP Rep. Emmi De Jesus in reaction to the PDI banner photo of a smiling US marine letting a boy peek into his gun scope during the on-going 10-day Philippine-US Amphibious Landing Exercise (Philblex) 2013.
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“People suffer and even die from the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus in San Ramon in Albay , Bicol region as a result of very poor primary health care services where doctors are absent. This situation shows just the tip of the iceberg as far as the national health system is concerned, where people from remote areas die from the most curable conditions like diarrhea,” said GWP Rep. Emmi De Jesus alarmed at the spread of the disease in San Ramon, Albay.
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Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Luz Ilagan today said the Anti-Cybercrime Law will serve more to silence dissent aired online rather than curb pornography, cybersex or cyber-prostitution.
“President Aquino’s Anti-Cybercrime Law is more of a repressive, tyrannical law rather than one that will help put an end to the violence against women perpetrated online,” said Ilagan.
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The government deserves all the criticisms and protests generated by the Cybercrime Law because it technically paves the way for electronic martial law. People have been arrested, tortured, killed and disappeared under different administrations because they were not afraid to speak the truth and for criticizing harmful government policies. With the Cyber Crime Law, there is a possibility that these will escalate,” said GWP Rep. Emmi De Jesus as people’s organizations today file a case before the Supreme Court questioning the constitutionality of RA 10175.
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