Main menu:
Featured News
WOMEN CHALLENGE ATIENZA ON THE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SURVEY RESULTS
News about Sec. Atienza saying that 92% of Filipinos are against the Reproductive Health (RH) Bill was received by the Democratic Socialist Women of the Philippines (DSWP) with a lot of questions. Elizabeth Angsioco, DSWP National Chair asserts, “Before we believe Sec. Atienza’s allegations, we want to know a number of things: 1. Is it credible? Who did the survey? Does the firm that conducted it have the credibility and objectivity that are very important in such an undertaking? Why did Atienza’s group choose this firm over those used by all politicians and organizations such as the Social Weather Station (SWS) or Pulse Asia? 2. What was the methodology used? How were respondents chosen? What were the questions asked? We would like to know whether these were leading questions or not. And, 3. Why not publish the full results?”
MORE...
Cash, not contraceptives, to curb population growth – ‘Gibo’
Published on Manila Bulletin ( http://www.mb.com.ph)
Lakas-Kampi CMD standard bearer Gilberto "Gibo" Teodoro Jr. Thursday said he favors a program giving cash incentives, not contraceptives as being promoted by some sectors, to couples volunteering to have less children as part of his concept of allowing individuals to go for their "moral choice" in a bid to curb the alarming population growth.
MORE...
RH Bill Survey
Seventy-six percent of adult Filipinos want family planning education in the public schools, and 71% favor passage of the Reproductive Health (RH) Bill, according to the Third Quarter 2008 Social Weather Survey, done on September 24-27, 2008.
MORE...
SC orders Comelec to count Ladlad in 2010 polls
MANILA, Philippines—The Supreme Court ordered the Commission on Elections (Comelec) Tuesday to recognize the gay group Ang Ladlad as an accredited party-list group and to include its name when the poll body starts printing the ballots for the May elections.
MORE...
Davao SP Says “YES” to Women's Health Care Clinic Ordinance
Fourteen (14) incumbent legislators of the City Council of Davao gave their overwhelming support to City Ordinance No. 335-10, otherwise known as the Women's Health Care Clinic Ordinance of Davao City, as they voted “yes” during a session at the Sagguniang Panlungsod plenary hall last January 12, 2010 which was presided over by a woman vice-mayor, namely Hon. Sara Duterte.
MORE...
MEDIA STATEMENT ON THE ANTI-RH SURVEY: LOOK WHO'S TWISTING THE TRUTH
PLCPD is stunned by the lack of honesty and sense of decency shown by the Alliance of Family Life Organizations and Family Life Philippines who claim responsibility for the purported Filipino Family survey that said Filipinos rejected the RH Bill. Whereas numerous independent surveys made by Pulse Asia and SWS since 1993 to 2009 has registered consistent and overwhelming support of Filipinos for family planning and reproductive health policy, this Family Life survey sponsored, conducted and announced by the same set of self-proclaimed pro-Life leaders attempts to project an entirely different result.
MORE...
Secretary Clinton Remarks on the 15th Anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development
When I think about that and the thousands of people who were part of it who came together to declare with one voice that reproductive healthcare is critical to the health of women, and that women’s health is essential to the prosperity and opportunity of all, to the stability of families and communities, and the sustainability and development of nations, it makes me nostalgic for conferences that are held that actually produce results – (laughter) – and give us a framework for moving forward. There is no doubt in my mind that the work that was done and the commitments that were made in Cairo are still really the bulwark of what we intend to be doing and are expected to do on behalf of women and girls.
MORE...
TAMA condemning the brutal murder of hardworking journalists in Maguindanao
We, The Alliance of Media Advocates (TAMA), an emerging national association of media practitioners who are advocating for reproductive health and human development, strongly condemn the brutal murder of hardworking journalists in Maguindanao on November 23, 2009.
MORE...
Cotabato residents support global campaign to stand up against poverty
COTABATO CITY, Oct. 18, 2009 (PNA) -– Cotabato City residents, heavily affected by flooding last month and last year joined on Sunday the global campaign "to stand up against poverty" by holding a half-day clean-up drive around the city.
MORE...
6,000 Baguio City residents pledge to protect environment
BAGUIO CITY, October 16, 2009 —The city took a respite from the aftermath of Typhoon Pepeng (Parma) by joining the international event “Stand United, Fight Poverty” at the Baguio City National High School (BCNHS) grounds on Friday.
MORE...