Neuer Name für die Philippinen

Präsident Rodrigo Duterte hat eine Idee des verstorbenen Diktators Fernando Marcos aufgegriffen: Die Philippinen sollen umbenannt werden und so ihre Kolonialvergangenheit abschütteln. Denn benannt sind die Inseln nach dem früheren spanischen König PhilippII (1527-1598) Las Islas Filipinas.

Neu sollen die Philippinen Maharlika heissen. Der Name kommt aus der Sprache der Einheimischen (Tagalog). So hiess, noch bevor die Kolonialherren kamen, auf der grössten von mehr als 7000 Inseln eine besondere Klasse von Kriegern. Wörtlich: Männer mit Reichtum, Wissen. Dazu müsste allerdings die Verfassung geändert werden. GUX/SDA

- Fragen:
1. Was - Wem bringts etwas?
2. Warum eine Insel den andern 7000 vorziehen? Warum ein speziell männlicher Name wählen?
3. Warum die Verfassung ändern?

Meine Kurzantworten:
1. Die Kolonialzeit prägt bis heute alles! Nur 1 von 7000  Insel hiess so!
2. Ja, zu Duterte passt das, ein Krieger -  das ist eine männliche Form - Frauen haben viel mehr verdient!
3.  Es braucht andere wichtige Änderungen der Verfassung, z.B. Mindestalter nicht runtersetzen, Human Rights einhalten, Todesstrafe verifizieren, Ämter effizienter machen ... !

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No to lowering the minimum age of criminal responsibility in the Philippines

News Feb 22, 2019: 56.903 haben unterschrieben.

Here, we want to highlight more facts:

According to the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), based on their jail visitations from 2013 to 2018, 409 children aged 10 to 17 have been found in regular adult prisons – 39% were found in PNP lock-up cells, 28% in city jails, and 16% in provincial jails. Even if the current law, Republic Act (RA) No. 9344 also known as the Juvenile Justice Welfare Act (JJWA), as amended by RA No. 10630, explicitly states how children should undergo community-based intervention or be brought to juvenile rehabilitation centers, these data reveal that children fall through the cracks of our justice system. No child will be jailed, Mr. Panelo? They already are.

Data from the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology corroborate with those from the CHR, with their report showing that about 86 children remain in their custody as of September 2018.

Open your eyes, Mr. Panelo. Lowering the minimum age of criminal responsibility to 9 or 12 translates to millions of Filipino children who will become vulnerable to the poor implementation of the current law.

Likewise, children are actually kept in facilities during the duration of their trial – as such, for all intents and purposes, detained. Add to that the fact that despite the JJWA’s requirement for the country to have 114 Bahay Pag-asa facilities, only 58 are operational, 3 of which are even run by non-government organizations. Of this number, only 8 are accredited by the Department of Social Welfare and Development.

We dare Mr. Panelo to visit these juvenile rehabilitation facilities, and realize how closer these juvenile rehabilitation facilities are to prisons than to being actual youth homes. Instead of continuing this pointless grandstanding, he and his cohorts should realize how decrepit our facilities are. Even the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Council, the government agency tasked to monitor the implementation of the law, said that some facilities are ‘worse than prisons.’

All these figures discount the claim that there is an urgent need to lower the MACR. We repeat our stand: stop this dangerous and unscientific move and commit to fully implementing the JJWA. Instead of gambling the future of Filipino children by pushing for laws that are patently inimical for their rights, we should focus on strengthening the sound foundations for child protection, just as what Catriona emphasizes. ###

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NOT 9, NOT 12: House vote to lower MACR against the best interest of Filipino children

Child Rights Network and Philippine Action for Youth Offenders
23. JAN. 2019 — 

NOT 9, NOT 12: House vote to lower minimum age of criminal responsibility against the best interest of Filipino children

23 January 2019 - Today, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly and hastily approved a bill that lowers that minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) from 15 to 12 years old, amending the current Republic Act 9344 or the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act of 2006 (JJWA). Senate is expected to also approve of its version soon. The bill is yet another attempt of Congress, under the leadership of Gloria Arroyo and Tito Sotto, and the Duterte Administration to revert all the positive gains under the JJWA and to trample on the rights of the children, the very sector it vows to protect.

Proponents of the bill claim that the proposed law aims to address the problem of children being used by criminal and drug syndicates to carry out criminal activities. Under this bill, children from ages 12 to 18 who commit serious crimes like murder, homicide, rape and violations of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 will be sent to reformative institutions called "Bahay Pag-asa."

International and local groups and organizations advocating for the rights of the children have already expressed their disappointment and fierce opposition to the proposed law, calling it an act of violence against children. Advocates have also expressed their concern on the severe conditions of youth care facilities around the country and their doubt that these could adequately and effectively cater to the needs of the children in conflict with the law (CICL).

The Child Rights Network (CRN) firmly believes that lowering the MACR goes against the best interest of Filipino children. It is not the solution to both the problems of children being involved in and children being used for criminal activities. This proposed measure is anti-poor, anti-human rights, and anti-children. Apart from being plainly absurd, this measure is also unfounded, misguided, and uncalled for. Data from the Philippine National Police show that only 1.72% of reported crimes are committed by children. Furthermore, subjecting these children to the country’s flawed justice system and to the arduous judicial process is utterly inhumane and would traumatize them for the rest of their lives. These children are already victims of the harsh environment and society that they live in. Approving this proposed law will just further victimize them as they would be dehumanized and stigmatized, impeding their rights to survival and development opportunities.

A great deal of studies have shown that criminalizing children leads to recidivism. Detention and/or incarceration of children have also been linked to adverse effects on a child’s mental, physical and emotional development, as they are likely to be subjected to discrimination and abuse while detained. Furthermore, jailing children deny them of opportunities for advancement through education, and future employment. The proposals to lower the minimum age of criminal responsibility also ignore scientific evidence that a child’s brain is still structurally and functionally immature and reaches full maturity at the age of 25.

The Child Rights Network, together with other child’s rights advocacy groups, vehemently opposes the bill and reiterates its call to retain the current MACR. Rather than lowering it, the government should instead focus on strengthening the implementation of the JJWA and on improving the facilities for children in conflict with the law. CRN further believes that rehabilitation is still the more effective and sound solution to the increasing number of child offenders. Evidence shows that these measures are effective in restoring and reintegrating children to the community, as documented by child rights advocates.

CRN also calls on all legislators to address the root causes of the problem instead of targeting the children.

Finally, CRN enjoins everyone to remain vigilant with all the development in the proposed law and to strongly resist all attacks against the rights of the children.

Children are not criminals. The real criminals are those who use and exploit the children to engage in criminal activities. The real criminals are those in the government who blatantly disregard and step on the rights of children in exchange of political gains. These are the real criminals that should be punished and be put in jail.

#ChildrenNotCriminals
#NoToLoweringOfMACR
#Not9Not12

About Child Rights Network

Child Rights Network (CRN) is the largest alliance of organizations and agencies pushing for children’s rights legislation in the Philippines. CRN has a membership of 46 organizations across Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.

For more information: crnphilippines@gmail.com

Christmas 2018

My vacation -  Christmas 2018

Sige - i was back again - cause i lost my heart in ....
Please read my report
or visit me in Switzerland
let's talk and pray and hugh
peace            G A B I

Report Christmas 2018:

Mabuhay Pinoys – I am back again – for vacation only ☹ but 😊

Iam very thankful that i could spend 10 fullfilled days together with my PJSP Friends. At first weh ad to find each other at the Manila airport, which is already adventurous! But Jackie made it possible and we enjoyed the first halo halo meal/drink/dessert. Then the first day, cooking noodles at 5am for

CIW, the woman prison and we delivered them with tomato sauce, to Mabel, the most honourable inmate. And then driving to Muntinlupa to the Maximum Prison, Christmas lights and gifts in front oft he big memorial entrance, also with the Mother Mary Cave, iam just asking myself why the hell are the gifts (only decorations) outside the prison and not inside?
But I was able to go inside Maximum Prison, to see my old friends Donald, Christian, Love and some other 25000 mens, hellooo?! Yes, even more overcrowed then ever and more restricted, but still cigarettes are available for a lot of money, and you can buy them from the guards!

The PJPS Office with Fr. Eli Lumbo SJ was busy as usual in Christmas time, so i was looking how at the littering place, my volunteer work, the little garden is? Here one plant - no a tree survived - Papaya blooming - pagasa for 2019!

Then we joined Ate Gwen, she was celebrating with her children from the neighborhood the Rosary praying, then young mens came for carolin singing, we shared lumpia (springrolls), turong (Banana fries) =mmmmhhh. Maligayang = Happy feeling all over!

Next day: Big outreach in Minimum Prison. Ate Gwen and her good team came along with 1000 of gifts as noodles, chinellas, biscuits, soaps, napkin and and ….. Buf first she awaked the old mens with bible games and sporting exercices so they always could win a small price! And the opened up up up, it was big joy to hear them singing all different Christmas songs in tagallo, spanish, english!


Another exitement was in the modern Mall of Asia. Disney presented the show – Holiday on Ice – and PJPS got about 50 free tickets for poor families and staff. So to feel in a country which always has a temperature over 30degrees – holiday on ice, it must by like to live in a fridge!
The mouthes stands open when they saw all the diffent Disney stars from Snow White to the witsches, Mickey and Minnie of course and and …..

 Then the big Concert in Medium Compound. This was really a PJSP event for their volunteer people and benefactors. So the singers are members oft he collage and they had a very hard training to gain this great show. Congratulation dear inmates, you are very brave, very talented, please go go go, go for it. Thank you very very much! This make it really feel that in prison you have the time, the opportunity to learn something you could never afford outside!

So the days go bye – very fast. Special thanks to Precy and her Family were i could stay over all these days and she managed to bring me over neary everywhere I wished to!

So the last donated money from my friends and benefactors, SFr. 464.05 is gone to all these good Pinoy people: To the inmates, the mothers and children, to the staff and volunteers of PJPS and I am sure, it is not only the money which helps, ist the hope of our Christ Jesus. Salamat po panginoon. Tumawa long. Peace forever.

Love                Gabi 

 PS  Pagasa bumili  (Hope to come back)

Boracay - Ferieninsel ist ab 24. Okt. 2018 wieder geöffnet

Ferieninsel Boracay ab Freitag wieder für Touristen offen - www.nau.ch

Ab Freitag 24. Okt. 2018 können Urlauber auf den Philippinen die für ihre Traumstrände bekannte Insel Boracay nach Regierungsangaben wieder besuchen.

Personen kommen auf der philippinischen Insel Boracay an. - keystone

Keine «Kloake» mehr: Ferieninsel Boracay wieder geöffnet

BLICK 15:04 Uhr15.10.2018

Manila – Die im April wegen Umweltproblemen geschlossene philippinische Insel Boracay ist wieder für Touristen geöffnet. «Ich garantiere, dass das Wasser jetzt sehr sauber ist. Die Insel ist heute ein Anblick», sagte der Sekretär für Umwelt, Roy Cimatu, am Montag.

 

Das Wichtigste in Kürze

• Die philippinische Insel Boracay war seit April geschlossen.
• Grund für die Schliessung waren massive Probleme mit dem Umweltschutz.

Künftig dürfen höchstens 19'200 Touristen zugleich die Insel betreten. Die Behörden wollen diese Vorgabe mit Kontrollen etwa der Hotelangebote durchsetzen. Die Regierung ging bereits während der sechsmonatigen Sperrung hart gegen die Tourismus-Branche auf Boracay vor: Drei Casinos sowie knapp 400 Hotels und Restaurants wurden wegen Verstössen gegen die Umweltvorschriften dicht gemacht. Nicht genehmigte Gebäude entlang der Strände wurden dem Erdboden gleich gemacht.

Auch das Unterhaltungsprogramm auf der einstigen Partyinsel dampfte die Regierung ein. Wassersport ist für Touristen zunächst tabu, lediglich Tauchgänge werden erlaubt. Die Behörden vertrieben die zahlreichen Feuerspucker, Masseurinnen, Händler und selbst die Erbauer der bekannten Sandburgen von den Stränden. Alkohol und Zigaretten sind an den Stränden künftig verboten, ebenso wie die riesigen Partys mit zehntausenden Besuchern rund um den 1. Mai.

«Nachhaltigen Tourismus»

Die philippinische Tourismusministerin Bernadette Romulo-Puyat setzt mit den neuen Regeln auf einen «nachhaltigen Tourismus». Sie habe weiteren Urlauberzielen, die von Umweltzerstörungen bedroht sind, Warnungen ausgesprochen, sagte Romulo-Puyat philippinischen Medien.

Weniger erfreut zeigte sich dagegen das Tourismus-Gewerbe auf Boracay. «Jeder von uns hat während der sechs Monate viele Opfer gebracht», sagte die Leiterin des örtlichen Tourismusverbands, Pia Miraflores, der Nachrichtenagentur AFP.

Boracay war seit April gesperrt. Der philippinische Präsident Rodrigo Duterte hatte zuvor die vorübergehende Sperrung der Insel angekündigt.

Naturparadies schwer geschadet

Der ungezügelte Massentourismus hatte dem Naturparadies schwer geschadet: Duterte warf den rund örtlichen 500 Hotels, Restaurants und anderen Tourismusunternehmen vor, ihre Abwässer ungeklärt ins Meer zu leiten und Boracay in eine «Klärgrube» zu verwandeln. Die Insel war zudem mit Müll übersät, mitten in die Natur hinein waren illegal Häuser gebaut worden.

Boracay zog Millionen von Touristen an, die Jahr für Jahr rund eine Milliarde Dollar in die Wirtschaft des Landes pumpten. Laut philippinischem Fremdenverkehrsamt kamen bislang jährlich 1,5 Millionen internationale und nationale Touristen nach Boracay, darunter immer mehr Deutsche.

Wassersport und Alkohol sind hier verboten

Touristen dürfen die philippinische Ferieninsel Boracay wieder besuchen. Doch für die einstige Partydestination gelten nun strenge Regeln.

Boracay ist die populärste Insel der Philippinen .

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	Dienstag 13.11.2018 10:11 - Philippinen Magazin Umweltministerium beginnt „Groß­rei­ne­ma­chen“ in El Nido …DENR Mimaropa, sagte, dies unterstütze den Aufruf von Präsident Duterte, Palawans touristische Ziele zu schützen, damit diese nicht zu einem weiteren Boracay oder einem touristischen Ziel werden, das wegen Umweltproblemen für 6 Monate geschlossen werden muss. „Wir streben an, irreführende Einrichtungen…
	Duterte droht mit Schließung von Palawan …kümmern und sie vor Übernutzung zu schützen, da sie sonst wie die Insel Boracay enden könnte. Duterte sagte am Samstag, während einer Rede in der Stadt Puerto Princesa, zwei Wochen nach der Wiedereröffnung der weltbekannten Insel Boracay, die wegen Rehabilitierung für sechs Monate geschlossen war, „…

Sige - I will come for Christmas 2018

Please note:

I will come for Christmas 2018. - maligayang :-)  
Arrival Dec 19th - Dec 27th, - talaga!

Maputi naman? 
Do you like to see and meet me? maraming maraming

Please help me to coordinate: 
Prison outreach? Sponsoring for mothers and children? Meeting with volunteers? Celebrations?
I can make donations ...

Please write to me: gabi.pjps@gmail.com

Sige - See you soooooon - ingat po kayo!
gabi

Boracay closed for tourists Summer 2018

For Better or for Worse: Tourism Dept. Pitching to Close Boracay From April to October

“I will close Boracay. Boracay is a cesspool.“, resounding words uttered by President Rodrigo Duterte a few weeks ago in a business forum.

 

The highly acclaimed pristine waters of this paradise now plagued with a sewage problem. Is Boracay going to be another Philippine landmark that will go to waste?

 

Drainage Waste Direct to the Sea. Disgusting!

Around 850 establishments have been served show-cause orders for such violations. Establishments violated the Clean Water Act, Ecological Waste Management Act, and Land Use Regulations.

 

Only 18% of the 500 accredited hotels are connected to the sewage line. So where does the waste go? Multiple businesses drained their waste directly to the sea.

 

If this continues, I’m afraid the President’s cesspool description might just be an understatement.

"I told Cimatu, Cimatu is a general, he was assigned here. ‘I’ll give you six months. Clean the g***** thing”, as said by the President Duterte at the Manila Business Forum.

 

With President Duterte’s directive, the tourism department is pushing the closure of Boracay on July to October to expedite the island cleanup. Plans are also present to announce a state of calamity to further hasten the process.

A mandatory salvage zone of 25 meters plus 5 meters is drawn for the buildings and the shore (high tide mark). Any establishment that will violate this boundary will be demolished.

Those who illegally tapped in the drainage system are all also forced to dismantle their businesses.

Balancing Act: Loss of Jobs vs. Preservation of Boracay’s Beauty

 

One of Asia’s top holiday islands faces closure by presidential decree. Rodrigo Duterte, president of the Philippines, has called for Boracay to be placed off-limits to tourists for six months while it is cleaned up.

An English-language news site, The Inquirer, said the president would declare a “state of calamity” in Boracay. Closure to tourists is expected from 26 April for “rehabilitation” of the tiny isle.

Nach einer Verfügung des philippinischen Präsidenten am 04.04.2018, soll die ganze Insel Boracay für den Tourismus für 6 Monate geschlossen werden. Die Verfügung soll am 26. April 2018 in Kraft treten.

Wie konnte es dazu kommen?

Fest steht jedenfalls, dass die Insel hoffnungslos überlastet war. 

Das schlug sich auf die täglich erzeugten Müllberge und die Abwässer nieder, mit denen die Insel und deren Infrastruktur fertig werden mußte.

Fragt sich, wie das ALLES in 4 Monaten gelöst/zum verschwinden/gereinigt wird?!

 Da bin ich mal gespannt!

und wie gehts wohl Victory Divers ? 

und dem Tattoo Randy ?

Guests from PH in Switzerland

Hello po

I am very happy that i could accomodate my first Pinoy friends:
Ludy, Ron and Sheila - we had wonderful very full 3 days/nights.

Welcome - Mabuhai 

Folklore dances with refugees, main station Zürich HB

Visit of the Black Madonna, Einsiedeln

Ludy knows all about it :-)

Ludy with my maganda ...Pinoy umbrella