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                    [Title] => University roadshow on promotion of human rights completed
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A university roadshow in 60 colleges and universities to bring to the fore the significance of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in promoting and protecting the human rights of peoples in the region has been completed.

[DatePublished] => 2010-04-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804865 [AuthorName] => Pia Lee-Brago [SectionName] => Education and Home [SectionUrl] => education-and-home [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 212305 [Title] => ADB assures critics on privatization policies [Summary] => The Asian Development Bank (ADB) assured its critics yesterday that it will pay attention to their concerns on the impact of the private sector’s involvement in public utilities.

"ADB shares many of your concerns and we will study your materials very closely," Richard Ondrik, acting country director of ADB’s Philippine Country Office, told Ana Maria Nemenzo, president, of Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) one of the protest organizers.

Be happy to meet with you after the Annual Meeting," Ondrik said.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096364 [AuthorName] => Donnabelle L. Gatdula [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 212094 [Title] => Groups hit ADB formula for privatization of gov’t assets [Summary] => Cause-oriented organizations led by the Freedom from Debt Coalition hit the Asian Development Bank (ADB) yesterday for its continuing policy which supports the privatization of public utilities and basic services.

The group of civil society organizations, known as the Philippine Working Group on the ADB scored the bank for paying lip service to "helping the poor" through its poverty reduction programs. These programs are forms of structural adjustment programs that were discredited in the 1980s and 1990s for bringing more poverty to poor Southern countries.
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[DatePublished] => 2010-04-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804865 [AuthorName] => Pia Lee-Brago [SectionName] => Education and Home [SectionUrl] => education-and-home [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 212305 [Title] => ADB assures critics on privatization policies [Summary] => The Asian Development Bank (ADB) assured its critics yesterday that it will pay attention to their concerns on the impact of the private sector’s involvement in public utilities.

"ADB shares many of your concerns and we will study your materials very closely," Richard Ondrik, acting country director of ADB’s Philippine Country Office, told Ana Maria Nemenzo, president, of Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) one of the protest organizers.

Be happy to meet with you after the Annual Meeting," Ondrik said.
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The group of civil society organizations, known as the Philippine Working Group on the ADB scored the bank for paying lip service to "helping the poor" through its poverty reduction programs. These programs are forms of structural adjustment programs that were discredited in the 1980s and 1990s for bringing more poverty to poor Southern countries.
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