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Photo: Philippine Action Star Robin Padilla Monday, December 01, 2008 09:48:51 PM  | | Action star and Mindanao Peace Champion Robin Padilla (right), UN Country Director Renauld Meyer, and Shariff Kabunsuan Governor Ibrahim Ibay are welcomed by residents and internally displaced persons in the village of Makir in Datu Odin Sinsuat town in the province of Shariff Kabunsuan on Monday, December 1, 2008.
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Children's Rights Groups To Submit Reports To UN RepresentativeMonday, December 01, 2008 09:34:32 PM MANILA, Philippines – The Salinlahi Alliance for Children’s Concerns launched its campaign Monday to highlight human rights violations against children as part of the build up for the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the upcoming visit of the United Nations Special Representative to the Secretary General (UNSRSG) on the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict, Radhika Coomaraswamy.
Read More Thousands Attend Serviamus Assembly In Mindanao; Army Brigadier Seeks Help For Refugees Monday, December 01, 2008 09:10:59 PM  | | ILIGAN CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / Dec. 1, 2008) – Some 3,000 people gathered in Iligan City in Lanao del Norte province in the southern Philippines for the 11th General Assembly of the Serviamus Foundation Inc.
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Philippine Farmers Stage Hunger Strike, Demand Distribution Of Land Owned By President's HusbandMonday, December 01, 2008 08:23:33 PM  | | MANILA, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / Dec. 1, 2008) – Eight Filipino farmers, including a woman, staged a hunger strike Monday in front of the Department of Agrarian Reform office in Manila to press the government to look into the plight of peasants in Negros Occidental province.
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Ramattan news agency shuts down in response to Palestinian Authority's raidsTuesday, December 02, 2008 08:01:28 AM  | | Ramattan news agency has closed down all its West Bank offices and suspended its website operations after security officers loyal to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas raided its headquarters in Ramallah and summoned eight employees for interrogation.
Ramattan has accused PA of waging a campaign of harassment and intimidation against its staff in the West Bank.
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Humiliating treatment of 'Libération' journalist in libel case evokes outcry in FranceTuesday, December 02, 2008 07:58:24 AM  | | The treatment meted out by the French police to Vittorio de Filippis, former managing editor of leftwing daily Libération, has prompted widespread condemnation and furore.
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Four journalists narrowly escape car bomb attack in BaghdadTuesday, December 02, 2008 07:57:06 AM  | | A team of journalists working for US media company National Public Radio had a narrow escape from a car bombing in Baghdad after Iraqi soldiers warned them that a device had been attached to the bottom of their armoured car. The bomb exploded about 15 feet from the NPR journalists. It destroyed the car but nobody was injured.
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