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Group urges women to unite and resist attacks, abuses
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, March 6) A women s group claimed on Saturday that most of the current peasant women political prisoners were detained under the Duterte regime, adding that the creation of an anti-insurgent task force has worsened the persecution of activists.
The Amihan National Federation of Peasant Women has called on the government anew to release 78 peasant women political prisoners, 62 whom were imprisoned under the present administration.
“The fascist Duterte has put 62 innocent peasant women in jail behind bars and deprived them of their rights as women, mothers to their children, and peasants advancing rights to land and livelihood. This March 8 International Women s Day protest, we are calling for their immediate and unconditional release and hold Duterte accountable, Zenaida Soriano, Amihan National chairperson, was quoted as saying in a statement on Saturday.
Group decries arrest of peasant leader accused of rebellion
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(Photo from Amihan Women)
Tasic, 55, a councilor of Barangay Hanopol Norte, was killed by two unidentified gunmen on Tuesday morning, Feb. 16.
Amihan Women mourned the death of Tasic and called for the termination of Anti-Terror Law and other state policies “authorizing extra-judicial killings, illegal arrests, and detention, and red-tagging, and other forms of human rights violations.”
“Moreover, before her death, she was constantly harassed and red-tagged by Duterte’s state forces and forced to clear her name and quit the organization,” Zenaida Soriano, National Chairperson of Amihan, said.
The peasant leader also urged the public to condemn the killing of Lucresia and other EJK victims and to hold Duterte and his state forces accountable.
Women dance against hunger, abuses
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
MANILA – Various women groups joined the annual One Billion Rising yesterday at the University of the Philippines, calling for an end to hunger and abuses.
“Across the planet, the majority of front line workers, health care workers, home care workers, domestic workers, and farmworkers are women. Like the Earth, they are the least valued and protected,” the One Billion Rising organizers said in a statement.
In the Philippines, the global event One Billion Rising, with the theme “Rising Garden,” was held at the Amphitheater of UP Diliman, Feb. 14. Participants also exchanged seedlings to signify their call for food sovereignty and their demands for due cash assistance in the face of the continuing impacts of the pandemic on their jobs and livelihood.
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