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“The United States should stop putting its nose where it is not needed or wanted,” Gabriela Women’s Party representative and Mindanaoan solon Luzviminda Ilagan said, one day after a local publication in Mindanao reported sightings of American soldiers in North Cotabato, where an armed conflict between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and Armed Forces of the Philippines sparked last week.  read more »

Despite literally pleading the military personnel at Fort Bonifacio, Gabriela Women’s Party Rep. Luz Ilagan and six other congresspersons who were members of the House Committee on Human Rights were denied entry to the AFP headquarters to verify complaints of human and Constitutional rights violations committed by the military against the detainees and to check on the condition of 1st Lieutenant Belinda Ferrer who is currently detained at Fort Bonifacio General Hospital after suffering from an illness.  read more »

Gabriela Womens Party Representative Liza Maza yesterday sought clarification from Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap on the Department on Budget and Management’s fund releases amounting to P897M which was awarded to the Department of Agriculture at the height of the deliberation of the impeachment case filed against President Arroyo.  read more »

Gabriela Women’s Party Rep. Luzviminda Ilagan condemned today the irresponsible attack of the Armed Forces of the Philippines in a civilian area in Datu Piang, Maguindanao last Monday, which killed six people, wounded and displaced many others, in the continuing effort to hunt Moro Islamic Liberation Front Commander Umbra Kato.  read more »

Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Liza Largoza Maza today pushed for nationwide, transparent, public hearings on Charter Change, arguing that the conduct of simultaneous district-level consultations being proposed by the allies of the administration is prone to political manipulation.

“We want nothing less than the conduct of truthful, thorough, transparent public consultations on the issue of charter change.”  read more »

“It can be seen as no other way. The dissolution of the peace panel is tantamount to a declaration of an all-out war against the Bangsamoro people. The Arroyo government’s obstinacy, all the while ignoring the legitimate demands of the Bangsamoro does not bring the conflict anywhere near resolution.”

Thus said Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Liza Maza today as Malacanang dissolved the peace panel negotiating with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
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“Hindi na nahiya. Bago pa man matalakay sa budget at bago pa man ipagtulakan ang 100% dagdag sahod sa mga opisyal ng gubyerno, higit na karapatdapat mabigyan ng dagadg sahod ang mga karaniwang manggagawa. More than President Arroyo and more than any other government official who has enjoyed the privileges of public office, it is the deprived almost destitute private sector worker that deserves a pay hike.”
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“This means nothing to ordinary Filipino women. We do not take pride in having President Arroyo tagged as the 41st most powerful woman in the world.”  read more »

“The government owes Filipino nurses five years worth of salary increases. RA 9173 or the Nursing Act of 2002 which was supposed to upgrade the basic pay of government nurses from salary grade 10 to not lower than salary grade 15 has not been implemented year after year.”  read more »

Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Liza Largoza Maza today said the reported increase in the number of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) cases in the country should prod Congress to immediately pass the Reproductive Health Bill.
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