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 been living with his family...
By NUEL M. BACARRAKodao Productions The Gabriela Women’s Party (GWP) held a rally at the United States (US) Embassy in Manila three days before the 39th Balikatan military exercises end on May 9, demanding an end to the war games they said is anti-Filipino. The...
By NUEL M. BACARRAKodao Productions Progressive groups held a rally Friday morning, May 3, at the Bulwagan ng Katarungan in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija to support the filing of counter affidavits for the four activists charged with violations of RA 11479 or the...
Red-tagging remains among the most prevalent threats to press freedom that also include violence against journalists and the media in the Philippines, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) reported. In his keynote speech at the opening of the historic 1st Philippine...
Government workers groups are demanding from the Ferdinand Marcos Jr. administration an increase in their salaries, saying their current pay have been left way behind by current living wage estimates. The country’s major public sector union federations met at the...
United States President Joe Biden revealed plans for a more aggressive military presence in the Indo-Pacific region at the start of the US-Japan-Philippine trilateral summit in Washington DC, seen as a warning to Beijing that it will not surrender its dominance in the...
Anti-imperialist group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) led a protest rally at the Chinese consulate on Tuesday, demanding foreign troops within the Philippine territory to stop militarizing the West Philippine Sea. The group again denounced China’s incursions into...
‘The need for armed struggle is greater than ever before.’ The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) rejected Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief of staff Romeo Brawner’s call for New People’s Army (NPA) fighters to surrender, saying the need for armed...
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Environmental groups held a rally in front of the The Netherlands Embassy in Makati last Friday, March 22, to demand accountability for two Dutch company’s involvement in the San Miguel Corporation’s P735-billion New Manila International Airport (NMIA) project on...
GENEVA, Switzerland—The Philippine UPR Watch again called for the abolition of the National Task Force To End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) and the junking of the controversial Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 in its ongoing participation at the 55th Regular...
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) again called on the Philippine government to stop red-tagging after another United Nations (UN) expert noted its practice by Philippine security forces. Reacting to UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression Irene...
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) blasted government claims that more than half of all media killings in the Philippines have been resolved. Reacting to government claims to visiting United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression...