National Federation of Small Fisherfolk Organizations in the Philippines
“China keeps on violating not only the international treaty that it is party to, but also the international law that it has ratified and a signatory of. To enforce the international ruling, the Philippine government should keep on tapping the UN, this time the General Assembly to pressure China to comply with the binding ruling under the most basic rules of public international law,” Bobby Roldan, PAMALAKAYA Vice Chair for Luzon said in a statement.
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“We assert by rights a government support in a form of economic aid and livelihood subsidy. It should not be less than P10, 000 for each of the poor fishing family who is reeling from the devastating impacts of the pandemic and the strict quarantine,” Bobby Roldan, PAMALAKAYA Vice Chair for Luzon said in a statement.
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“The all-time high record of new cases says it all; a restrictive enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) alone will never work. When will the government ever realize that the problem is not the easing of restrictions, but the lack of comprehensive medical and scientific solutions?” said Fernando Hicap, PAMALAKAYA National Chairperson of the group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (PAMALAKAYA).
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“Who else are capable of carrying out such heinous crime while the province would be implementing in a moment the ECQ? Looking into the police’s involvement on the region-wide execution of activists two weeks ago, it is without a doubt that they were also complicit with the killing of Miguel,” PAMALAKAYA said in a statement issued to media outfits.
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“Same strict quarantine under the same framework of militaristic approach. There is no plan to strengthen the ever-crippled public health system. There is no free massive testing, aggressive contact tracing, free treatment, and most especially there is no massive vaccination. President Duterte should admit his failure to address the pandemic, he should be held accountable along with the military leaders in the anti-pandemic task force,” Fernando Hicap, PAMALAKAYA National Chairperson said in a statement.
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“If symptoms of the virus persist, poor sectors are helpless because there is no accessible and affordable testing. WIthout the testing, the spread of the virus would be uninterrupted and the person possibly acquired it would be exposed to more vulnerabilities as there would be no necessary treatment unless tested positive by the virus,” Fernando Hicap, PAMALAKAYA National Chairperson said in a statement.
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