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 DANIELA MAURICIOBulatlat.com MANILA — Former Gabriela Women’s Party Rep. Liza Maza is resolved to run for the Senate in the 2025 midterm elections under the Makabayan Party despite government efforts to frustrate her plan. The announcement of Maza’s campaign was...
By DOMINIC GUTOMANBulatlat.com MANILA – Amid the commemoration of the International Humanitarian Law (IHL) month, rights groups reported signs of torture in the bodies of six members of the New People’s Army (NPA) in Iloilo, who allegedly died in a gunfight on August...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMILBulatlat.com MANILA – Environmental group Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment assailed the Court of Appeals decision denying environmentalists Jhed Tamano and Jonila Castro’s petition for writ of amparo and writ of habeas data. The...
By JUSTIN UMALIBulatlat.com SAN PABLO, Laguna – A peasant and women’s rights advocate was arrested and subjected to “mental and psychological torture” while under detention, August 2, according to human rights groups. Fatima Banjawan, 19, is a member of women’s rights...
Bulatlat revisits the role of the government’s counterinsurgency plans in the increasing use of the terror financing law to quell and silence activists, critics, and development workers. By JANESS ANN J. ELLAOBulatlat.com MANILA – For the human rights community in the...
By JADE ABERINBulatlat.com MANILA – Two golds and a bronze as of this writing. While there is reason to celebrate, the country’s athletes are expected to perform better if the government would adequately fund the sports program. In its National Expenditure Program...
Companies evade responsibility for the affected communities while the government pays for initial aid and then leaves them to fend for themselves during the recovery process. By MAVIC CONDEBulatlat.com ALBAY — Historical data show that vessels are the leading cause of...
By DOMINIC GUTOMANBulatlat.com MANILA – A children’s rights group called for urgent government action for at least 3.5 million children in Metro Manila due to typhoons Butchoy and Carina this month. In a statement, Save the Children Philippines (SCP) underscored how...
By JONAS ALPASANBulatlat.com MANILA – A Tagum court convicted a lawmaker, human rights activists and several volunteer Lumad teachers over child-trafficking case filed against them in 2018. The case stemmed from a solidarity mission that was aimed to bring food and...
By JACINTO LINGATONGBulatlat.com LOS BAÑOS, Laguna — Activists from the Southern Tagalog region are appalled over the recent statement of the Philippine police chief, where he said that activists should avoid “inconveniencing” the public in the upcoming State of the...
By DOMINIC GUTOMANBulatlat.com MANILA – “Happy beyond words, I cannot express it enough,” said Gerardo Dela Peña in Filipino, the country’s oldest political prisoner at the age of 85, in an interview yesterday, July 1. Dela Peña was accompanied by his son, Melchor...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMILBulatlat.com MANILA – Different civil society organizations are not optimistic that Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s creation of the Special Committee on Human Rights Coordination will address the human rights abuses in the Philippines. In a joint...