By JONAH KAYGUANBulatlat.com MANILA — As the Islamic holy month of Ramadan rounds its first week, Palestinian refugees in the Philippines continue to face an uncertain future. Those who fled the war in Gaza find themselves scattered across Metro Manila, handed from one group to the next, and...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMILBulatlat.com MANILA – Filipino women continue to suffer rights violations and inequality amid the government’s commitment to the United Nation’s Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). This is what the...
By MIKHAELA EMY SALLEBulatlat.com MANILA – Filipino health workers have expressed their concern regarding the massive budget cuts in the health sector, saying this will further make it inaccessible to the country’s poor. On Sep. 28, the AHW held a protest in front of...
“The World Bank and the IMF bear major responsibility for the widespread poverty in the Philippines through its imposition of onerous loan conditionalities and so-called development programs that resulted in higher prices, stagnant wages, union busting, cuts in social...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMILBulatlat.com MANILA – Progressive groups expressed their dismay over the Malolos Regional Trial Court’s dismissal of kidnapping and serious illegal detention with serious physical injuries against retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan Jr. filed by...
For Danah, the struggle is far from over. By JUSTIN UMALIBulatlat.com SANTA CRUZ, Laguna – Freedom could not come sooner for peasant organizer Danah Marie Marcellana, released on bail October 6, after two years in prison. According to the coalition Free our Sisters,...
By JACINTO LINGATONGBulatlat.com SANTA CRUZ, Laguna – Human rights workers in Southern Tagalog have been prevented from speaking to the three indigenous peoples rights advocates in Mindoro who were reported to be last seen on September 19. In a statement,...
Jonila acknowledged the dangers of speaking the truth on that day of the press conference, but she said, truth should come out and they cannot allow themselves to be used in deceiving the public. By ANNE MARXZE D. UMILBulatlat.com MANILA – It was a room jam-packed...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAOBulatlat.com MANILA — A Malolos court acquitted retired Major General Jovito Palparan in relation to the abduction, torture, and illegal detention of two Bulacan farmers 17 years ago. The Bulacan Regional Trial Court Branch 19 acquitted...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAOBulatlat.com MALOLOS, Bulacan — 17 years. This is how long Raymond Manalo and his brother Reynaldo waited for this fateful to come. But on Friday afternoon, Manalo walked out of the Malolos court – breathing heavily, his face red with apparent...
By KIMBERLY BINALINGBINGBulatlat.com MANILA – The families and supporters of missing activists Dexter Capuyan and Gene Roz Jamil “Bazoo” De Jesus are convinced that state forces are behind their enforced disappearance following the surfacing of two environmental...
By JACINTO LINGATONGBulatlat.com SANTA CRUZ, Laguna — Three indigenous people’s rights advocates investigating human rights violations were abducted in Mindoro Oriental. According to Karapatan Southern Tagalog, they are Job Abednego David, 29, Peter del Monte Jr., 29,...
By RITCHE T. SALGADOBulatlat.com CEBU CITY – Yet another organization helping the poor is being accused of terrorist links. Based in Cebu, the Community Empowerment Resource Network, Inc. (CERNET) is a registered non-government organization that supports people’s...