<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">President</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Republic of the Philippines</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Malacanang</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
Palace</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">JP Laurel St.</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
, San Miguel</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Manila</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
, Philippines</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Voice: (+632) 564 1451 to 80</span>
</p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Fax: (+632) 742-1641 / 929-3968
</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Cell#: (+ 63) 919 898 4622 / (+63) 917 839 8462
</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">E-mail: <a href="mailto:corres@op.gov.ph">
corres@op.gov.ph</a> / <a href="mailto:opnet@ops.gov.ph">opnet@ops.gov.ph</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">We, trade unions, workers organisations, migrant organizations, support groups and concerned individuals, express our grave concern on the rampant trade union and political repression in the Philippines.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">In particular, we are outraged that 64 of our colleagues in the trade union movement and informal workers association have been killed since 2001.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>They are part of the more than 750 victims of political killings in the Philippines recorded as of Sept 2006.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We strongly condemn and denounce political killings as the worst form of political repression. It is an outright violation of an individual's right to life.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Political killings violate all norms and international standards for the respect of human rights and has no place in a democratic society.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">We are equally alarmed of other cases of trade union and human rights violations such as abductions, harassment, intimidation, grave threats, illegal arrest and militarization in the workplaces and communities.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Workers who assert for their democratic rights and fight for social justice and transformation are being branded as terrorists, communists and "enemies of the state" and are being attacked with impunity under the guise of counter-terrorism.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 312.75pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">We are deeply concerned at the continued illegal detention of KMU Chairperson Emeritus and Anakpawis Rep. Crispin "Ka Bel" Beltran who was arrested without warrant on Feb. 25,
2006, a day after a state of emergency declaration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Ka Bel was arrested without warrant on the basis of trumped-up charges dating back two decades and already quashed by the Philippine courts.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">We demand that Ka Bel be given justice and that he be freed from his illegal detention.
<span style="COLOR: black"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #ff6600; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">As a signatory to the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, to the United Nations Covenant on civil and political rights and to the International Labor Organization Conventions 87 and 98, the Philippine government must ensure that the Filipino workers right to organize, to bargain collectively, to exercise his other democratic rights and to live a life with dignity is recognized and respected.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">We then call on you, as the President and the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, to take concrete steps to stop the political killings, harassment, intimidation and all forms of trade union and political repression committed against leaders, members, organizers and supporters of trade union organizations and informal workers associations as well as other legitimate organizations in the Philippines.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText2" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><font color="#ff6600"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">We will continue to monitor the situation in the Philippines
and will be urging our respective governments to withdraw support and stop giving financial aid to the Philippine government, until political killings and other forms of human rights violations in your country are stopped.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We refuse to use our money to aid the Philippine government and become an instrument to attack and kill our Filipino brothers and sisters who are fighting for social justice.</span>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Thank you for your attention.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Respectfully yours,</span></p>
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</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">APWSL Coordinator</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">23/24 Soi Phungmi 52, Sukhumvit 93</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Bangjack, Prakhanong, Bangkok,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>10260 Thailand</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Cc:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">Hon. Chairperson Dr. Purificacion Quisumbing
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">The Commission on Human Rights </span>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">SAAC</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">
Building</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">, Commonwealth Avenue</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">U.P. Complex, Diliman, Quezon City
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt"><span lang="FR-CA" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: FR-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">Fax: +632 929-0102, Email:
<u><a href="mailto:drpvq@chr.gov.ph">drpvq@chr.gov.ph</a></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt"><span lang="FR-CA" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: FR-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">Hon. Sec. Avelino Cruz</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">Department of National Defense </span>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt"><span lang="ES-MX" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">Camp Aguinaldo, EDSA, 1110 Quezon City
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt"><span lang="FR-CA" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: FR-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">Email:
<u><a href="mailto:snd@dnd.gov.ph">snd@dnd.gov.ph</a></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt"><span lang="FR-CA" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: FR-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">Fax: (+632) 911 6213
</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><span lang="FR-CA" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: FR-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Sen. Manny Villar</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Senate President</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Rm. 602 GSIS Bldg., Financial Center, Roxas Blvd., Pasay City
<br>Trunk Lines: (632) 552-6601 to 80 loc. 6507 - 09 / 6511<br>Direct Line: (632) 552-6715<br>Fax No.: (632) 552-6734<br>Email:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span><a href="mailto:mb_villar@yahoo.com">mb_villar@yahoo.com
</a><br>Website: <a href="http://www.mannyvillar.com.ph/">www.mannyvillar.com.ph</a></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><span lang="ES-MX" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
Rep. Jose de Venecia Jr.</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Speaker of the House</span>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Rm. MB-2, House of Representatives, Quezon City
<br>Phone: 931-5001 local 7446, 9315071 to 9315073</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Hon. Arturo Brion<br>Secretary
<br>Department of Labor and Employment<br>7th Floor, DOLE Building<br>Muralla Street, Intramuros, Manila, PHILIPPINES</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><span lang="FR-CA" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: FR-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
Phone:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(632) 527-300 loc. 701-704, 706-707</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><span lang="FR-CA" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: FR-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
Fax:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(632) 527-2121; (632) 527-2131; (632) 527-5523</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><span lang="FR-CA" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: FR-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
Email:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><a href="mailto:osec@dole.gov.ph"><span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: FR-CA">
osec@dole.gov.ph</span></a></span><span lang="FR-CA" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: FR-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="FR-CA" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: FR-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="FR-CA" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: FR-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="FR-CA" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: FR-CA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Second list of signatories (have signed or directly send this letter or a personalized or extended protest letter to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo):
</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> Public Services International; World Federation of Trade Unions; Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), AUSTRALIA; Grahame McCulloch, NTEU General Secretary, AUSTRALIA; Phippine Australia Union Links (PAUL), AUSTRALIA; SEARCH Foundation, AUSTRALIA; Pinoy in Austrian Society For Integrity, Reforms and Social Transformation (PINAS FIRST), AUSTRIA; PGCB Sramik Karmachri Union, BANGLADESH;
B.C. Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines, CANADA; Barbara Waldern, CANADA; Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), CANADA; Filipino - Canadian Youth Alliance – National, CANADA; Filipino Nurses Support Group, CANADA; Filipino-Canadian Youth Alliance-Vancouver, CANADA; National Alliance of Philippine Women in Canada, CANADA; Philippine Women Centre of British Columbia, CANADA; Philippines-Canada Task Force on Human Rights, CANADA; SIKLAB -
B.C. (Advance the Rights and Welfare of Overseas Filipino Workers), CANADA; SIKLAB – CANADA, CANADA; Pancyprian Public Employees Union, CYPRUS; Jean-Pierre Page, France; Deutsch-Philippinische Freunde (DPF), GERMANY; Trades Union Congress, GREAT-BRITAIN; Democratic Trade Union of Health and Social Workers, HUNGARY; KASBI (Kongres Aliansi Serikat Buruh Indonesia), INDONESIA; Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), KOREA (SOUTH); Malta Union of Midwives & Nurses, MALTA; GEFONT-Nepal, NEPAL; Windward Island Civil Servants Union / Private Sector Union (WICSU/PSU), NETHERLANDS ANTILLES; Working Womens Association, PAKISTAN; Africans United for Taiwan, SIERRA LEONE, Sierra Leone's Peoples Democratic League (PDL), SIERRA LEONE; Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA), SOUTH AFRICA; Tania Noctiummes, SRI LANKA; Pao-Yu Ching, TAIWAN; CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities, New York City, USA; United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), USA, Thai Asia Pacific
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Worker Solidarity Links APWSL Bangkok Thailand</span></p>