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 groups denounced the Philippine government for abstaining from the United Nation’s call for an immediate humanitarian truce amid the increasing attacks of the Israel government on Gaza.
Rural peoples in different countries in Asia kicked off mobilizations geared towards the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties 28 (COP 28) in Dubai come November.
orture survivors Raymond and Reynaldo Manalo have filed their appeal before a Malolos court that earlier acquitted retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan
By ZYSA MEI ELLORANMarket WatchBulatlat.com MANILA – Farmers cannot afford to buy rice anymore. This is the sentiment of Filipino farmers as they decried the continuing price increase of food, particularly rice, while their ranks continue to suffer from heavy losses...
To the Bangsamoro people, the situation in Palestine may intensify the attacks on Muslims worldwide.
The innovation of raising crablets in Gubat, Sorsogon is caught in the middle of a government ban, serving as a litmus test for local officials on how to support community-based ventures. By MAVIC CONDEBulatlat.com GUBAT, Sorsogon — Three men were...
MANILA – At least 12,000 Bangsamoro gathered for a peace rally in Cotabato City yesterday, October 16 in solidarity with the call to “Free Palestine”. They also performed their Salah, a ritual prayer, for their Palestinian brothers and sisters. (Photo with permission...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMILBulatlat.com MANILA – Relatives of two missing activists demanded that their abducted loved ones be surfaced in a press conference on Wednesday, October 11. “Whoever is holding my brother, please surface him now,” Nica Ortiz said. She was with...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMILBulatlat.com MANILA – Filipino women continue to suffer rights violations and inequality amid the government’s commitment to the United Nation’s Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). This is what the...
By MIKHAELA EMY SALLEBulatlat.com MANILA – Filipino health workers have expressed their concern regarding the massive budget cuts in the health sector, saying this will further make it inaccessible to the country’s poor. On Sep. 28, the AHW held a protest in front of...
“The World Bank and the IMF bear major responsibility for the widespread poverty in the Philippines through its imposition of onerous loan conditionalities and so-called development programs that resulted in higher prices, stagnant wages, union busting, cuts in social...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMILBulatlat.com MANILA – Progressive groups expressed their dismay over the Malolos Regional Trial Court’s dismissal of kidnapping and serious illegal detention with serious physical injuries against retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan Jr. filed by...