Saturday, February 07, 2009

MEDIA ADVISORY: CONFRONTATION - CHR vs. MMDA


Residents along R-10 in Tondo, Manila look on as demolition team from Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) conducts clearing operations on Feb. 3.

Attention: News Editor, News Desk, Reporters and Photojournalists

MEDIA ADVISORY

CONFRONTATION
CHR vs. MMDA

On Monday February 9 the irresistible force, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) headed by Chairperson Leila de Lima, will challenge the immovable object, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Bayani Fernando.

On the R-10 Road before Pier 10, near Moriones Street, the local residents will hold before the eviction teams of MMDA the CHR Resolution No. A2008-052, a resolution recommending the imposition of a moratorium on all evictions and demolitions.

The CHR has ordered all evictions which do not provide decent relocation to stop immediately. The MMDA since Feb. 2 has evicted families without any relocation. The two government bodies will confront one another Monday at 8:00 AM along the R-10.

The R-10 which stretches from Velasquez Street in Tondo to Lapu Lapu Street in Navotas is scheduled to be widened. Some 3,046 families by government count are in the way. NGO workers of Urban Poor Associates (UPA) and Community Organizers of the Philippine Enterprise (COPE) say there are more than 10,000 families on the road. Neither MMDA nor the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), which commissioned the evictions, offers relocation.

The CHR has determined eviction without relocation is a violation of the country’s laws.

Please come.

Where: R-10 Tondo, before Pier 10, near Moriones Street

Date: February 9, 2009 (Monday) / 8:00 AM

2 comments:

  1. De Lima konsintidor sa mga taong walang disiplina.Promoter of chaos,Kanya kanya, Ilang taon na silang pinagsabihan na lumipat ng tirahan sapagkat bawal at deikado ang manirahan sa ganitong lugar at illegal.Inaayos ni Bayani Fernando ang ating bansa, puwede ba tulungan natin siya para umunlad tayong lahat.National housing! magtrabaho kayo! Vice Noli De Castro! magtrabaho ka naman! huwag puro pamumulitika.

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  2. Mga Kababayan ko wag kayong mag alala bibigyan kayo ni Bayani Fernando ng reloction site.Talaga lang kailangan ayusin ang ating Bansa.Maka diyos at Maka tao po si BF.Sa Marikina 11,000 pamilya ang nabigyan nya ng bahay.Kaunting pasensiya lang mga Kababayan Ko.

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