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...
Progressive group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) denounced the upcoming Balikatan exercises called “Salaknib” between the Philippines and the United States as it can provoke regional geopolitical tension and violate the country’s sovereignty.
The Philippine media community is mourning the passing of one of its pillars, Luis V. Teodoro, who passed away March 13 at 81 years old.
Human rights watchdog Karapatan called on the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to investigate the recent incidents of rights violations in the communities of Rizal and Kalinga province.
“This year’s International Working Women’s Day is a challenge for us to push these issues front and center, to confront the Marcos administration to address our demands as working women.”
“The state continues to disregard the rights of organizers and mass leaders, right on the second anniversary of the Bloody Sunday Massacre.”
Mary Jane was transferred here in 2021. This is the third prison where she has been detained since Indonesia President Joko Widodo granted temporary reprieve just hours before her supposed execution in April 2015.
It has been more than three years since a joint military and police operation barged into the staff house where community journalist Anne Krueger lived.
Twenty senators recently signed the resolution for the ratification of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) even if various sectors reiterated the call to junk it.
Progressives gathered at the People Power Monument in Quezon City to commemorate the 37th year of ousting the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr.
Among the cases the workers brought to the attention of the labor department is the harassment against Jaime Paglinawan, and several other workers rights advocates, whose photos appeared in a Facebook post, with a note that read, “they are the root cause of violence in our society.”
A human rights group assailed the possible promotion of a ranking police officer that spearheaded an operation that led to the killing of nine indigenous peoples in Panay back in 2020.
Over 300 farmers and indigenous people from General Nakar in Quezon province are marching towards Malacañang as they continue to oppose the government plans to build the controversial Kaliwa Dam, saying this will submerge ancestral domains of indigenous peoples in the provinces of Quezon and Rizal.