Gabriela Women’s Party criticized today the Supreme Court decision allowing Secretary Romulo Neri to invoke executive privilege in the Senate investigation of the multi-billion NBN-ZTE deal as a very dangerous precedent that virtually gives the president a cloak of immunity from accountability.
“What can now stop a president [...]
“It is disconcerting that legitimate arguments against the promotion and/or confirmation of staunch allies of the Arroyo administration can be reduced to name-calling and labelling of women who hold strong opinions. These sort of sexist remarks are no different from centuries-old labels on staunch women fighters who were [...]
The women’s partylist group Gabriela criticized today moves spearheaded by a pseudo-partylist group, Babae Ka to discredit NBN-ZTE witness Rodolfo Jun Lozada.
“The cases filed by Babae Ka against Jun Lozada are meant to harass him and and his family into silence. This is a move that benefits only those that have been accused of large-scale [...]
GABRIELA Women’s Party Representative Liza Maza today scored the Committee on Foreign Affairs for the cancellation of its meeting on Thursday to supposedly discuss the JMSU and the questions surrounding the constitutionality of the said agreement. “This indicates attempts of Malacanang and its allies to cover up possible violations of the Constitution.”
“That Malacanang adamantly refuses [...]
The women’s partylist group, GABRIELA today said the recent assessment released by the Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (PERC) putting the country on the top of its list of most corrupt economies in Asia comes no surprise as the list of unresolved anomalies under Mrs. Arroyo continue to unfold.
“Under the leadership of Mrs. Arroyo, we [...]
The House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs approved today on second reading House Resolution 124 “Resolution Expressing the Sense of the House of Representatives that the Philippine Government Urges the Government of Japan to Formally Acknowledge, Apologize and Accept its Responsibility over the Sexual Slavery of Young Women Commonly Known as Comfort Women by [...]
Militant women’s partylist group, GABRIELA today joined thousands of women in commemorating International Women’s day, calling on Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the country’s second woman president to step down.
“Gloria Arroyo, has become the biggest hindrance to women’s empowerment in this country. In the midst of worsening poverty, one corruption scandal after another hounds her administration. Women [...]
”Last night’s display of police brutality shows clearly who the real terrorists are in this country.”
Thus said Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Liza Maza, condemning the brutality with which the Manila Police dispersed protesting workers from Southern Tagalog last night.
“There can be no excuse for this barbaric act that once more puts the international human rights [...]
Urban poor women of Gabriela Women’s Party today tied pink ribbons and affixed posters in the doors of their homes as a sign of their protest against the widespread demolitions being conducted by the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) and to issue a call for Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to step down from office.
Fe Ramirez, Chairperson [...]
BabaLa! (Babae Laban sa Katiwalian) led women today in issuing a warning to Mrs. Gloria Arroyo.
Bibeth Orteza, Spokesperson of BabaLa said that their group’s first and most important warning to Pres. Arroyo is that the end of her corrupt regime is at hand.
“You have reached your dead end. You have miserably failed to alleviate the [...]
