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Hundreds of “Occupy Wall Street” protesters in New York, their supporters, passers-by and tourists signed the One Million Voices for Peace in the Philippines petition calling for a peaceful negotiated settlement to the armed conflicts in the country.

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Runners from the Bisayang Dako Alang sa Kalinaw (Visayans for Peace) lead the Peace and Solidarity Run for Mindanao which will cover 452 kms. from Zamboanga City to Cotabato City. The run is organized by the Mindanao Peaceweavers, the broadest peace network in the Philippines.

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There are still more than 2,000 political prisoners languishing in various detention centers in Burma who are experiencing torture and other forms of human rights abuses from prison authorities, FBC-Philippines claims.

Boy Abunda endorses One Million Voices for Peace in the Philippines Campaign

Monday, 12 December 2011
“You and I, all of us should find a viable solution for lasting peace in our country. That is my bottomline. I add my voice to the One Million Voices for Peace Campaign in The Philippines.” Thus said Philippine showbiz' “King of Talk” Boy Abunda as he officially endorsed the One Million Voices for Peace in the Philippines (OMVP) campaign calling for a political settlement to the armed conflicts in the country that was launched recently by the Initiatives for International Dialogue (IID), a regional non-government organization based in Davao City.
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Filipino activists call end to military atrocities in West Papua

Friday, 02 December 2011
PHILIPPINES - Asia-Pacific Solidarity Coalition (APSOC) and Partido ng Manggagawa (PM) solidarity activists today held a silent protest in front of Indonesian Embassy in Makati City in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of West Papua's declaration of independence from the Dutch rule. Fifty years ago on the 1st of December 1961, in the then Dutch colony of West New Guinea, The West Papuan flag, also known as the Morning Star was flown for the first time officially beside the Dutch Tricolour. History narrates that the Dutch was about to give the West Papuan people their freedom, but it is one of the great tragedies that at their moment of freedom it was brutally crushed and West Papua was handed over to Indonesia in 1963.
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Diplomats Call for Negotiated Settlement in the Philippines

Friday, 18 November 2011
Madrid, Spain (19, Nov)-- Current and former diplomats and officials of regional inter-governmental organizations endorsed a campaign for a negotiated political settlement of the armed conflicts in the Philippines in a conference between civil society and multi-laeral organizations in Madrid today. Two Deputy Secretary-Generals of regional formations, a former Secreteray General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), senior officials, former ambassadors, and a former Dutch Defense Minister were among those who signed a petition of the One Million Voices for Peace in the Philippines (OMVP) campaign in the First International Conference Strenghtening Global Peace and Security for Development organized by the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) and the Organization of American States (OAS). The conference was hosted by the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB).
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Stop the rants, Lay down the guns, Women want Peace

Friday, 11 November 2011
We, members of Women Engaged in Action on 1325 (United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325), a national network of women in human rights, women, and peace organizations, express our unequivocal rejection of war and military solution to the crisis arising from the October 18 tragedy in Al-barka, Basilan.
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IID is an advocacy and solidarity organization promoting south-south solidarity and people-to-people internationalism. Thematic priorities: conflict prevention and peacebuilding, democratization and right to self-determination. Focus areas: Mindanao, Burma, Timor-Leste, South Thailand, Aceh and West Papua

Main Office:
27 Galaxy Street, GSIS Heights, Matina
Davao City, 8000 Philippines
Phone: (+63 82) 2992574 & 75 / Fax: (+63 82) 2992052
Email: davao at iidnet.org

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