Over 100 women from seven continents joined the International Womens Alliance (IWA) which focused on landlessness and widespread land grabbing.The women gathered on July 5 and 6 in Quezon City to discuss the 2011 World Bank report on Agriculture and Rural Development which noted that 75% of the world's poor live in rural areas and are mostly involved in agriculture.
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Gabriela Women's partylist Rep. Emerciana de Jesus said that the SC ruling is actually the third referendum that "favored the Cojuangcos and the Aquinos."
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MANILA, Philippines - Activist congresswomen today branded the Supreme Court's (SC) ruling on the Hacienda Luisita land dispute as a "full-scale betrayal" of the farmer-beneficiaries.
"The decision is a full scale betrayal of the peasant clas sin the same intensity as the Mendiola and Hacienda Luisita massacres," Gabriela Rep. Emmi de Jesus said in a statement, reacting to the SC's order to the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to ask the 6,296 farmer-beneficiaries if they would opt for land or shares of stocks of the Hacienda Luisita Inc. (HLI).
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MANILA – Para ipakita sa Korte Suprema ang pagkadismaya sa naging desisyon sa usapin ng Hacienda Luisita, hinikayat ng isang kongresista ang mga magsasaka sa naturang lupain na huwag makibahagi sa isasagawang panibagong referendum.
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PROGRESSIVE party-list lawmakers dubbed the Supreme Court's decision on Hacienda Luisita, a vast landholding owned by the Cojuangcos - the family of President Benigno Aquino III, as "a judicial massacre".
The decision calls for a referendum to ask farmers to choose between land or shares of stock once the 6,443-hectare sugar estate in Tarlac is up for distribution to land reform beneficiaries.
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MANILA, Philippines - Liberal Party standard bearer Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III should face the land dispute involving the Cojuangco family-owned Hacienda Luisita, according to Bayan Muna party list Representative Satur Ocampo. read more »
MANILA - Regardless of whether he's running in the 2010 presidential elections, the killings of seven people in a violent dispersal in Hacienda Luisita in 2004 is a legitimate issue against Liberal Party (LP) bet Benigno 'Noynoy' Aquino III, according to Bayan Muna party-list representative Satur Ocampo. read more »
Gabriela Women’s Party Rep. Luz Ilagan finds no reason for the
continued implementation of the bogus Comprehensive Agrarian Reform
Program, which, “instead of emancipating farmers from their
impoverished condition has only condemned them into a lifetime of
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“There is no point in extending a bogus land reform program that has served to strengthen the hold of big landowners, agro-corporations and multinationals over vast tracts of land.”
Thus explained Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Liza Largoza Maza, in voting “NO” to the proposed extension of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program which was approved at the committee level yesterday.
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