By DANIELA MAURICIOBulatlat.com “This happens every year—once harvest season comes, prices crash. Farmers can no longer recover their investment. Now, they can’t even sell their produce; they’re forced to give tomatoes away or throw them out. There must be immediate compensation for the farmers...
Tanggol Batangan, a Batangas-based human rights group, reported the release of Jose Escobio and Junald Jabonero who were arrested last Aug. 24. By JACINTO LINGATONGBulatlat.com SANTA CRUZ, Laguna – Two individuals arrested alongside an activist were released from...
For Karapatan, this recent development is “obviously part of the NTF-ELCAC’s so-called ‘whole of nation approach’ of harnessing all available resources to surveil, profile, red-tag, marginalize, persecute and inflict other human rights violations against the poor and...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMILBulatlat.com MANILA – Progressive groups once again expressed their solidarity with the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines (RMP) as the court heard their defense against the terrorism financing charges filed by the National Intelligence...
By ASHLEYAH DELA CRUZ and KIMBERLY BINALINGBINGBulatlat.com MALOLOS, Bulacan – “Hindi na magsasaka, magsasako na lang.” This is how Marcelino Cruz Lucas, 65, described his situation as a rice farmer of over fifty years in Malolos, Bulacan, a province north of...
By RONJAY MENDIOLA and KATEBELLE LADLADBulatlat.com MANILA — MANILA – Progressive groups expressed their support to embattled human rights defenders as Quezon City court hears the petition for certiorari filed by former National Security Adviser Gen. Hermogenes...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMILBulatlat.com MANILA – Families and friends continue to call for the surfacing of their disappeared loved ones as they commemorate international day of the disappeared on Aug. 30 (Wednesday). Led by the group Desaparecidos, they went to the Court...
By VENMAR CECILLEBulatlat.com MANILA – Family, friends, and supporters of Amanda Echanis from different sectors launched the Panata sa Paglaya: Free Amanda Echanis Movement (FAEM) at the Alcantara Hall, Student Union Building, UP Diliman on August 26, 2023. Artists,...
By KATEBELLE LADLAD and RONJAY MENDIOLABulatlat.com MANILA – Youth groups questioned the reduced budget for capital outlay and maintenance funds for state universities and colleges saying that proper and accessible services and conducive learning facilities remain...
By EIKEE JAMELA CAPPAL and RONJAY MENDIOLABulatlat.com MANILA – Filipino farmers are asking lawmakers to increase the budget for agriculture and to strengthen the food sector. Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya...
A group of former political detainees criticized the insufficient funds for persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) in the 2024 national budget.
Karina Dela Cerna was only 19 years old when she was arrested along with her father Albert in a series of raids in Bacolod in 2019.
By ABHIE GANADOBulatlat.com MANILA – Two human rights defenders from Southern Tagalog said that their trumped-up charges are evidence of how the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) is used to silence critical voices. “[O]ur state forces are weaponizing the [ATA] just to silence...