PCIJ WebAlert #18.2008
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14.May.2008
---------------[ PCIJ Investigation )------
MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Maguindanao, RP Fall Behind Key Indicators for Education
by Jaileen F. Jimeno
IN October 2007, the United Nations marked the midpoint of the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that governments across the world
ratified and pledged to fulfill until 2015. The Philippines and over a
hundred other nations have committed to realize the MDG targets that,
among others, seek to reduce by half the number of poor citizens and
provide basic education for all.
However, our latest three-part series shows that the Arroyo
administration is falling behind all key indicators of progress in a
most strategic goal: education.
In faraway Maguindanao and nearby Las Piñas, more children are failing
to enroll and stay in school, and the ratio of students to teachers,
classrooms and books is getting worse. These problems gain more
urgency as schools start preparing for the opening of the new
schoolyear in the next fortnight.
Part 1 looks at Maguindanao, where the situation is made worse by
bursts of armed conflict that keep students and their teachers away
from schools for days on end, as well as by apparently skewed
priorities.
Read on at http://pcij.org
Post your comments at http://pcij.org/blog/?p=2322
---------------[ The Daily PCIJ )------
JPEPA: 'Unconstitutional' on 15 counts yet...
by Ivory delos Trinos
THE Senate’s ratification of the Japan-Philippines Economic
Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) is not likely to push through until,
possibly, this August. This was after Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago
decided to defer her sponsorship of the controversial treaty to await
the results of the exchange of notes between foreign affairs
secretary Alberto Romulo and Japanese Ambassador to Manila Makoto
Katsura.
The renegotiation, citizens’ groups however warned, will not mend the
irregularities innate to JPEPA. “The proposed side notes only seek to
fix the constitutional problems of the agreement,” said Magkaisa Junk
JPEPA Coalition (MJJC) legal counsel Golda Benjamin. “The economic
problems are grave.”
Read on at pcij.org
Post your comments at http://pcij.org/blog/?p=2316
14.May.2008
---------------[ PCIJ Investigation )------
MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Maguindanao, RP Fall Behind Key Indicators for Education
by Jaileen F. Jimeno
IN October 2007, the United Nations marked the midpoint of the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that governments across the world
ratified and pledged to fulfill until 2015. The Philippines and over a
hundred other nations have committed to realize the MDG targets that,
among others, seek to reduce by half the number of poor citizens and
provide basic education for all.
However, our latest three-part series shows that the Arroyo
administration is falling behind all key indicators of progress in a
most strategic goal: education.
In faraway Maguindanao and nearby Las Piñas, more children are failing
to enroll and stay in school, and the ratio of students to teachers,
classrooms and books is getting worse. These problems gain more
urgency as schools start preparing for the opening of the new
schoolyear in the next fortnight.
Part 1 looks at Maguindanao, where the situation is made worse by
bursts of armed conflict that keep students and their teachers away
from schools for days on end, as well as by apparently skewed
priorities.
Read on at http://pcij.org
Post your comments at http://pcij.org/blog/?p=2322
---------------[ The Daily PCIJ )------
JPEPA: 'Unconstitutional' on 15 counts yet...
by Ivory delos Trinos
THE Senate’s ratification of the Japan-Philippines Economic
Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) is not likely to push through until,
possibly, this August. This was after Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago
decided to defer her sponsorship of the controversial treaty to await
the results of the exchange of notes between foreign affairs
secretary Alberto Romulo and Japanese Ambassador to Manila Makoto
Katsura.
The renegotiation, citizens’ groups however warned, will not mend the
irregularities innate to JPEPA. “The proposed side notes only seek to
fix the constitutional problems of the agreement,” said Magkaisa Junk
JPEPA Coalition (MJJC) legal counsel Golda Benjamin. “The economic
problems are grave.”
Read on at pcij.org
Post your comments at http://pcij.org/blog/?p=2316
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