World

PHILIPPINES | 13 – 10 – 2009 | You have undoubtedly seen the amazing images of the destruction and death in the Philippines that has resulted from Typhoon Ondoy. The Centre d’appui aux Philippines / Centre for Philippine Concerns (CAPCPC) deplores the deaths and offers its condoleances to the families of the victims. We join with our friends at BAYAN ...

NEW DELHI | 12  – 10- 2009 | PRESS  STATEMENT: Ensure their right to a lawyer and to be immune from torture! The Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners (CRPP) as per the reports available from the press (The Telegraph, Jharkhand edition, Hindustan Patna edition) is concerned about the safety of the two allegedly arrested Maoist leaders Anuradha and ...

ATHEN | 05 – 10 – 2009 | The Second International Assembly of Migrants and Refugees (IAMR) is an assembly where migrants and refugees speak for themselves through their grassroots organizations supported by a broad spectrum of migrants rights advocates, progressive workers’ groups and social movements. The First IAMR held in Manila, Philippines last October 2008, embodied the autonomous voice of ...

PITTSBURGH | 30 – 09 – 2009 | Filipino-Americans from New York and New Jersey, under the banners of BAYAN USA and the International League of People’s Struggle (ILPS), participated in last weekend’s “National March for Jobs”, the first to a week’s worth of protest actions addressing the upcoming G20 Summit in Pittsburgh. They were joined by hundreds of trade ...

CANADA | 23 – 09 – 2009 | To mark the 37th anniversary declaration of Martial Law in the Philippines, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) Canada member organizations are holding rallies, study sessions, coffee house discussions, public fora and photo exhibits in different cities in Canada. Throughout the week, BAYAN Canada member organizations will be holding events in different cities under ...

MANILA | 07 – 07 – 2009 | To thwart terrorism, identity theft, and perhaps even blacklisting runaway workers, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) will begin taking photographs and fingerprints of visa applicants to the oil-rich kingdom. Prince Khaled bin Saud, Saudi Foreign Undersecretary, said authorized biometrics would receive visa applications on behalf of Saudi embassies and missions.

USA | 07 – 07 – 2009 | The White House and members of Congress must move quickly on enacting a just and humane immigration reform  package that will reunite families, reinvigorate the economy, and remove the term “illegal or undocumented immigrants” from the dialogue in this country. Ethnic media, which reaches over 60 million adults in the United States, ...

INDIA | 05 – 07 – 2009 | The Bengali daily Sanbad Pratidin of 27 June 2009 carried a front-page news item which clearly shows that US intelligence agencies and the Indian space research centre, the ISRO are very much involved in this war declared by the central and WB state government against the people of Lalgarh. The report is ...

PHILIPPINES | 03 – 07 – 2009 | Dear friends and comrades, It is with great sadness and grief that we inform you of the death of Comrade Wilson “Ka Wilson” Baldonaza, Secretary General of KMU, at 2:15am yesterday (July 1). He was 57. He is survived by his wife, Lily.

KATHMANDU | 18 – 06 – 2009 | Normal life has been disrupted in Nepali capital Kathmandu and two other districts in the valley on Monday with the bandh called on by Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (UCPN-M) cadres. Young Communist League (YCL) and other UCPN-M affiliated organizations called on bandh, protesting against the death of Rajendra Phuyal, the Kathmandu district ...