Future Global Network (FGN), a network of Malaysia-based non-governmental organizations (NGO) for human rights, peace and justice of humanity, welcomes the findings of the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines and praised its impartiality on the alleged ‘massacre’ of eight Moro Muslims in Ipil, Maimbung, Sulu last February 4, 2008.
 
Jose Manuel Mamauag, director of the Commission on Human Rights for Western Mindanao, has released the CHR findings, which recommended that charges be filed against the officers and men of the Philippine Navy Special Warfare Group (SWAG) and the Army’s Light Reaction Company (LRC) involved directly or indirectly in the mission, planning, operation, intelligence gathering, command and control of the incident, that led to the deaths of eight residents of Barangay Ipil under the principles of direct participation and command responsibility.  

28 January 2008, Future Global Network (FGN), a Kuala Lumpur-based network of non-governmental organizations (NGO) geared towards peace and justice for humanity, bade Haji Muhammad Suharto, the former president of Indonesia , a safe and secure journey to the Hereafter.
 
We recognize the former Indonesian president’s struggle for economic development and political stability of the vast archipelagic nation in which he succeeded to great extent. His over three decades at the helm of the most populous Muslim nation, showed a great leap in the country’s economic prosperity and development. However, the political suppression of Muslim voices, had led to unnecessary loss of lives in many instances. Therefore, while there was unprecedented success in Indonesia ’s economic progress and political stability, buoyed up by the uncharacteristic silence of its benefactor, it may have been at the expense of a number of people that were sacrificed in the process.
 

28 January 2008, Future Global Network (FGN), a Kuala Lumpur-based network of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) geared towards peace and justice for humanity, hails the Turkish government’s proposal to lift the ban on headscarf on university campuses, including women professionals and employees in public institutions.
 
The headscarf ban was imposed by the secular Turkish government “as a barrier to the perceived threat of Islam’s encroachment into the political field, and to protect women who chose not to wear the headscarf,” sometime after the military coup in 1980.
 

Future Global Network (FGN), a network of NGOs for Peace and Justice of humanity, wish to convey our Solemn Prayers and Greetings for a Peaceful and Harmonious New ‘2008’ Year.
 
Looking back to the previous Year 2007, we could only lament at the sky-rocketing prices of oil and other prime commodities. On the other hand, the world has breathed a sigh of relief with the freezing of Iran’s and North Korea’s, nuclear programs, respectively thus removing two of the apparent contemporary flash points that had threatened peace and stability not only in those parts of the world, but also on the international scene.