A human rights organization asked Congress to increase the medical allowance for persons deprived of liberty (PDL) to go along with the proposed increase in their daily food budget. As the House of Representatives tackles the Department of Justice (DOJ) budget today, political detainee...
Groups bewailed more “squid tactics” displayed by Sara Duterte at the budget deliberations on the Office of the Vice President’s (OVP) 2026 budget. Kabataan Party Rep. Renee Co slammed Duterte’s “troll behavior” over corruption issues as the vice president asked if...
Tributes are pouring in for the late National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) Negotiating Panel senior adviser Luis G. Jalandoni, praising his more than six decades of service to the poor. Jalandoni died of illness in Utrecht, The Netherlands where he had...
Former National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) Negotiating Panel chairperson Luis Gamboa Jalandoni died on Saturday in Utrecht, The Netherlands, the Communist Party of the Philippines and the NDFP jointly announced. He was 90. “It is with deep sorrow that...
Former Bayan Muna Congressman Ferdinand Gaite lambasted the Department of Energy (DOE) for acting as a “mere spokesperson of big oil companies,” as another round of oil price increases was implemented last Tuesday. Gaite criticized the DOE’s “passive stance” in...
[UPDATED] Progressive groups urged Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to swiftly grant clemency to Mary Jane Veloso after the president announced the human trafficking victim is coming home after nearly a decade and a half in an Indonesian death row. In a statement Wednesday,...
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) urged the United Nations (UN) to conduct “thorough, balanced investigations” in the Philippines to be able to hold accountable those truly responsible for violations of children’s rights in the country. In a...
The Duterte dynasty may have misused confidential and intelligence funds (CIF) over the years as reward money in the extrajudicial killing of drug personalities as well as their critics, House Deputy Minority Leader and ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro...
A former lawmaker condemned the slow and bureaucratic response of the Ferdinand Marcos Jr. government to pleas by distressed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) caught in Israel’s escalating military actions in Lebanon. As the Zionist army of Israel has started its...
The country’s winningest teachers’ partylist launched its 2025 national elections bid by announcing its top nominees in a national convention in Quezon City on Thursday, September 26. Among the celebrated partylists in the ongoing 19th Congress, ACT Teachers Party...
Another National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) peace consultant had been killed as a hors de combat, the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) said. Ariel Arbitrario, a participant in several formal rounds of peace negotiations between the NDFP and the...
Out of Congress but not out of the fight, Bayan Muna (BM) took the executive and legislative branches to court last week, challenging the constitutionality of the Ferdinand Marcos Jr. government’s “un-programmed funds” (UF). BM chairperson Neri Colmenares and former...
By NUEL M. BACARRAKodao Productions The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Bikol (KMB) said Bicol farmers need urgent compensation and subsidy from the Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Office of the President due to flooding during Tropical Storm Enteng (International Name:...