By DOMINIC GUTOMANBulatlat.com MANILA – Filipinos from a broad range of groups are preparing to flood Luneta Park on September 21 to demand an end to entrenched corruption and to call for accountability from politicians implicated in the ghost — paid for but uncompleted or made of substandard...
By DOMINIC GUTOMANBulatlat.com Trigger warning: gender-based violence, graphic details. MANILA — Bahaghari, an alliance of LGBTQ+ individuals and organizations, calls for the Caloocan authorities to conduct an investigation on the brutal killing of a trans woman. Last...
By DOMINIC GUTOMANBulatlat.com MANILA — Human rights groups expressed alarm on reports of aerial strafing in indigenous peoples communities in Pola, Oriental Mindoro. Bigkis at Lakas ng mga Katutubo sa Timog Katagalugan (BALATIK) reported that elements of the...
By FRANCK DICK ROSETEBulatlat.com NAGA CITY – The outburst of Camarines Sur 2nd District Rep. LRay Villafuerte over a campus publication’s local preference survey has resulted in malicious comments, harassment and intimidation. Solidarity and support calling for...
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...
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...