Civil Society

Timeline: The Cha-Cha Train

A chronology of events relating to efforts to amend the 1987 Constitution under the Arroyo administration.

abs-cbnNEWS.com/ Newsbreak 11/25/2008 11:17 AM

Arroyo asks PNP, AFP to find missing ABS-CBN TV crew

President Arroyo has instructed the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to locate an ABS-CBN News team that went missing in Sulu province over the weekend.

abs-cbnnews.com 06/10/2008 3:37 PM

Palace discloses human rights review report

In a bid to be transparent about last week's discussions in the United Nations Human Rights Council on the Philippine situation, Malacañang released Thursday an advance copy of the draft report of the United Nation’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR). "As the Latin saying goes, 'Res ipsa loquitur', let the thing speak for itself. In the spirit of transparency and public information, we are sharing with you the advance copy of the Report adopted on April 15 by the UN Human Rights Council on the UPR Session on the Philippines held on 11 April,” Quisumbing said.

abs-cbnnews.com 04/18/2008 9:38 PM

Pass freedom of information law-NGOs

By Carmela Fonbuena
abs-cbnNEWS.com/Newsbreak

While Senate’s power to get to the bottom of the controversial NBN-ZTE deal hangs with the Supreme Court (SC), civil society groups have called on Congress to urgently pass a freedom of information law.

abs-cbnnews.com 04/14/2008 4:16 PM

Govt to defend human rights record before UN review

Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita is in Geneva, Switzerland to present and defend the human rights record of the Philippines before the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group of the Human Rights Council Friday.

abs-cbnnews.com 04/12/2008 12:25 AM

Arroyo allots P40B to stave off food crisis

President Arroyo on Friday committed at least 40 billion pesos for a government "masterplan" which seeks to prevent the emerging world food crisis from severely affecting the country. "Our program, for easy recall, will be called FIELDS," Mrs. Arroyo said as she outlined the fund allotments for agriculture based on the Department of Agriculture's (DA) list of recommendations. FIELDS stands for fertilizer, irrigation and infrastructure, extension and education, loans, dryers and post-harvest facilities, and seeds and other genetic materials.

abs-cbnnews.com 04/04/2008 6:43 PM

President Arroyo to allocate more for anti-corruption drive

President Arroyo Saturday assured an official of a US government corporation that her administration will allocate more funds to the anti-corruption drive of the Philippines.

abs-cbnnews.com 03/15/2008 1:02 PM

Ombudsman’s panel on NBN-ZTE deal asked to inhibit

First, it was Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez who was asked to inhibit from the Ombudsman investigation on the botched broadband deal with Chinese supplier company ZTE Corp. because of her close relations with the First Couple.

Click here to view Urgent Motion for Disqualification of Ombudsman Panel

abs-cbnnews.com 03/14/2008 7:04 AM

Budget delay costs lives

BY y GEMMA BAGAYAUA
abs-cbnNEWS.com/Newsbreak

While commending increases in the budget for social services, civil society organizations involved in budget monitoring scored the government once again for not passing the annual budget law on time.

The Alternative Budget Initiative (ABI), a group composed of 48 non-government organizations and people's organizations, said the delay meant that the additional P5 billion allocations for social services that the group proposed will not be released until later this year.

abs-cbnnews.com 03/13/2008 10:57 AM

Government rejects all T-bill bids

For the second consecutive auction, the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) rejected bids for government debt papers after banks submitted unreasonably high offers.

abs-cbnnews.com 03/04/2008 1:48 AM

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