NP-MAKABAYAN senatorial candidate Rep. Liza Maza today signed a seven-point covenant with Migrante International for the protection of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) as she criticize the Arroyo government for "gross criminal neglect" of the OFWs' plight.
NP senatorial candidate Rep. Liza Maza called for the immediate repatriation of 19 distressed women workers unduly held in the Annasban company barracks in Abha, in southwestern Saudi Arabia.
THE New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has asked President Arroyo and Chief Justice Reynato Puno to order a full investigation into the threats being received by veteran journalist Marites Danguilan-Vitug following the publication of her book Shadow of Doubt: Probing the Supreme Court.