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...
For the youngest lawmaker in the House of the Representatives, the youth’s answer to the question is clear. The burden to shape the future does not lie on a single person.
“Almost all of the expenses were taken from our savings. Aside from this, it is taking a constant toll on our mental wellbeing especially since we have to think about our work and studies during the [supposed] recovery period.”
“Very strange and contradictory that the Comelec Second Division opted to deny our petition yet agreed that the ‘representations’ made in Item 11 of Box 22 of the certificate of candidacy (COC) of Marcos Jr. are ‘material.’”
A group of public health advocates is calling on the Department of Health to revisit its proposed shift in the country’s pandemic response, where testing and contact tracing will no longer be a priority even as the number of new COVID-19 infections continue to soar.
After 14 years, the Manila court handling the case of “traveling skeletons” finally dismissed the murder charges against NDFP peace consultants and several other activists. The court found the witnesses tainted with bias and ill motive.
An international group of women journalists launched a digital safety platform for their colleagues here in the Philippines as the 16-day campaign to end gender-based violence ended on Friday, International Human Rights Day.
For Filipino human rights defender Cristina Palabay, eating threats for breakfast has been so real in the past five years.
Two days before the International Human Rights Day, various human rights groups remembered the victims of extrajudicial killings under President Rodrigo Duterte, with their families and fellow human rights activists bringing with them potted plants to symbolize how they remain steadfast in their fight for justice.
Anticipating the release of Supreme Court decision on the controversial Anti-Terror Act (ATA), progressive groups held a protest in front of the Commission on Human Rights, Dec. 7.
“Let nurses run for Congress so that the voice of nurses can be heard.”
“We strongly call on our lawmakers to pass the Human Rights Defenders Protection Act — and upholding human rights should be at the top of the legislative agenda of those running for a seat in Congress in the upcoming elections.”
It has been three years since former First Lady Imelda Marcos was convicted of seven counts of graft and corruption.