By JIAN ZHARESE JOEIS F. SANZBulatlat.com MANILA — Three months before the 2025 midterm election, the demands of different sectors for government accountability and the end to impunity were heard at the Liwasang Bonifacio during the protest on January 31 against poverty, corruption and the...
By DOMINIC GUTOMANBulatlat.com MANILA — Paghida-et sa Kauswagan Development Group (PDG), a Negros-based development organization working for land rights, urged the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to conduct an investigation on the arrest of three of development...
By FRANCK DICK ROSETEBulatlat.com CAGAYAN DE ORO — On National Children’s Month, various groups urged the current Marcos Jr. administration to prioritize the young indigenous peoples’ (IP) right to education by reopening the Lumad schools that were forcibly shut down...
By DOMINIC GUTOMANBulatlat.com MANILA – A Molbog indigenous peoples leader is accused of “grave coercion” by a former executive of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP). Eusebio Pelayo, 69, a community leader and a Molbog resident in Mariahangin,...
By RAIZZA P. BELLOBulatlat.com ALIAGA, NUEVA ECIJA – Bernardo Trinidad picked up a pale brown palay (rice). He held it by his wrinkly palm and stared at it for a moment. “In farming, your harvest isn’t certain unless it’s already in a sack,” Trinidad said in Filipino...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMILBulatlat.com MANILA – United Nations mandate holders expressed deep concern on the terrorism and terrorist financing charges against 27 development workers of Cebu-based non-government organization Community Empowerment Resource Network Inc....
MANILA — Environmental groups led by Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines (YACAP) and Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) protested in front of the US Embassy in Manila on Saturday, Nov. 16 on the global day of action for climate justice and peace. The groups...
Kalikasan People’s Network demands full reparations for the Philippines, citing historical emissions and government failures in the wake of deadly storms. By ANNE MARXZE D. UMILBulatlat.com MANILA – “The United States and other Global North nations should pay their...
By DOMINIC GUTOMANBulatlat.com MANILA – Families of the disappeared activists gathered at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani on All Souls Day to honor their missing loved ones and to call once again for their surfacing. JL Burgos, brother of disappeared activist Jonas...
By DOMINIC GUTOMANBulatlat.com MANILA — “The fight does not stop at the decision of the courts, we will continue to search for justice and all victims of enforced disappearance,” said Francisco “Eco” Dangla, an abduction survivor and environment defender, in an...
By JACINTO LINGATONGBulatlat.com SAN PABLO, Laguna — Karapatan Southern Tagalog (ST) condemned the recent wave of arbitrary arrests and detentions of peace consultants, labor leaders, and peasant organizers, describing the charges as baseless and politically...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMILBulatlat.com MANILA – “Focus on the investigation on the war on drugs carried out by former President Rodrigo Duterte, former police chief Ronald ‘Bato’ Dela Rosa, and the police.” This is the statement of the victims of families of Duterte’s...
By FRANCK DICK ROSETEBulatlat.com CAGAYAN DE ORO — Two students aged 21 and 19 from Central Mindanao University in Maramag, Bukidnon died in two separate accidents on Oct. 23 as then tropical storm (later named Severe Tropical Storm Kristine) hit the province...