By ALYSSA MAE CLARINBulatlat.com MANILA – Part of the job. This is how Filipino women journalists perceive intimidation, harassment, and even death threats they experience as truth tellers, initial data from a recent action research revealed. The Ateneo de Manila de University’s (ADMU)...
The Court of Tax Appeals acquitted Rappler Holdings Corporation (RHC), and its CEO Maria Ressa of four tax evasion charges filed against them by the Duterte administration in 2018.
The daughter of a political prisoner has sought the assistance of the Commission on Human Rights after she was subjected to what she described as a humiliating and traumatic strip search.
“It would lessen our cost surplus. We would also be able to guarantee the benefits of these cold storage facilities that it would bring to our farmers, especially here in Nueva Ecija who plant and harvest onions.”
In the first six months of Ferdinand Marcos Sr., advocates are up in arms over the lack of priority given to improving the country’s public health system with no health secretary and still no direct services for the people.
One of the legacies of the Marcos Sr. dictatorship is how it blatantly used the state and bureaucracy to plunder the economy and enrich itself and its favored elite, including foreign interests. Marcos. Jr., with his economic blueprint, is setting the stage to do the same.
“He left the safety of our supportive and loving hometown to serve the Lumad and their struggles for self-determination and to protect their ancestral lands from mining companies.”
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A Negros trial court denied the motion filed by community journalist Anne Krueger to have the planted evidence against her for her arrest in 2019.
Progressives assailed the controversial Maharlika Wealth Fund, saying that concentrating funds in the hands of very few ruling few is prone to corruption and abuse.
It is not easy to advocate and help the Indigenous people because you are prone to violence and red-tagging from the state.
Like robots. This is how Richard Castillo, 40, one of the workers of the Manila North Harbour (MNH), described the unjust conditions they are experiencing.
As more cooperatives registered to meet the program’s final extended deadline of March 2023, implementation barriers and shortcomings hampered momentum and mirrored the reasons for the program’s reluctance among the most affected stakeholders, the jeepney drivers.