May, 2009

A BILL has been filed in Congress seeking to reorganize the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) to address censorship problems in the country. Two legislators from Davao supported the move.  read more »

QUEZON CITY — Assistant minority leader and Gabriela Women’s Party representative Liza Maza expressed alarm that US troops entering the Philippines would again use the US-RP Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) this time as a convenient excuse to be exempted from quarantine inspection despite the alert released by the World Health Organization (WHO) declaring that the A (H1N1) virus outbreak has escalated to a “public-health emergency of international concern”.  read more »

The development community commemorated on Tuesday, May 26 a victory against human trafficking amid various obstacles and problems attending this campaign. It was the sixth anniversary of the enactment of Republic Act (R.A.) 9208, or the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003.  read more »

Saying it is high time to replace a martial law relic, the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board Act of 2009 (MTRCB) that has long been used as an instrument to curtail the right to freedom of expression, especially socially-relevant and creative works critical of the administration in power, lawmakers belonging to the progressive bloc yesterday filed House Bill 6425 which seeks to repeal and replace Presidential Decree 1986 which had created the censorship body.  read more »

”If he is not satisfied with the decision of the Supreme Court, then let him show proof. Let him prove his accusations, if he can’t prove his accusations, then shut up and shut up now,” Maza said.  read more »

Filipino filmmakers praised a bill filed in Congress seeking to reorganize the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB), in order to address censorship problems in the country.  read more »

The Magna Carta will also provide enabling mechanism for the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The measure was sponsored by Sen. Jamby Madrigal in the Senate and Gabriela Rep. Liza Maza in the House.  read more »

Assistant Minority Leader and Gabriela party-list Rep. Liza Maza yesterday challenged the Belo Medical Group to address the pressing concerns over the massive proliferation of the notoriously controversial sex videos involving Dr. Hayden Kho and a number of women he has allegedly victimized.  read more »

Nauna dito, matatandaang humingi ng tulong si Halili sa Gabriela upang magsampa ng kaso laban kay Kho.Inaalam nina Maza at Ilagan ang tamang batas na magpaparusa sa mga taong nagre-record ng isang video na walang kaukulang permiso partikular na sa kanilang nakakatalik gayundin sa taong magpapakalat sa publiko ng mga illegal na kopya nito.  read more »

Ilagan believes that recruitment agencies are one of the most lucrative businesses in the Philippines and that it would be impossible for the government to regulate the payments that they would charge on OFWs.  read more »

“If they will liberalize and hasten the process, there is a possibility that they will charge more,” Ilagan said. She added that recruitment agencies would only implement this on official fees charged to OFWs.

Earlier, Gabriela Reps. Liza Maza and Luz Ilagan filed House Resolution 1184 directing three House committees to inquire into how the right to privacy can best be protected in the light of the latest video sex scandal involving Kho.  read more »

In light of Dr. Hayden Kho’s treacherous act of spreading his sex videos with women which he took apparently without the knowledge of his sex partners, two militant woman solons have filed a resolution which seeks the House of Representatives committees on public information, civil service and professional regulation and justice to conduct an immediate inquiry into how the right to privacy can be best protected.  read more »

Two solons from the women’s group Gabriela on Friday filed House Resolution 1184 calling for a probe into the proliferation of sex videos taken without the knowledge or approval of the women.  read more »

House of Representatives Assistant Minority leader and Gabriela Women’s Party (GWP) Rep.Liza Maza today expressed support and encouraged the young actress Katrina Halili to file a case to proper bodies if indeed her constitutional right to privacy has been violated.  read more »

“We give Katrina our support and we vow to promote every measure to protect and defend women like her (who have been) degraded and humiliated by this kind of malicious act,” Gabriela party-list Rep. Liza Maza said in a statement.  read more »

Maghahain ng panukalang batas ang Gabriela Women’s Party-list na layong magparusa sa mga nagpapakalat ng sex videos.  read more »

Gabriela Representative Liza Maza told Sun.Star on Wednesday that they are willing to help Katrina and other women involved in Kho’s scandal, especially should these women were proven to be “aggravated” by Kho.  read more »