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 regulating oil prices and its...
A group of Filipino human rights advocates are in Geneva, Switzerland to attend the ongoing 54th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and seek an evaluation of the United Nations Joint Program (UNJP) being implemented in the Philippines. A...
The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) reiterated its call for President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to leave the Department of Agriculture (DA) and appoint a competent full time secretary on the occasion of his 66th birthday last Wednesday. In a statement on...
By NUEL BACARRAKodao Productions The Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA) hit Senate Bill 452 authored by Sen. Robinhood Padilla to “distort” historical facts on Ferdinand Marcos Sr.’s martial law by declaring September 21, its anniversary of...
Teachers also condemn new curriculum as ‘undermining truth’ A group of martial law survivors expressed opposition to a Department of Education (DepEd) memorandum ordering that the Marcos name be disassociated from the dictatorship of the 1970s to the 1980s. The...
‘There are some companies, which may not have sustainability as a priority, that are still in denial that they are mandated to do the EPR law,’ says Crispin Lao, executive director of the Philippine Alliance for Recycling and Materials Sustainability. By ELYSSA...
Rice prices may be lowered by several pesos more than President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s price ceiling of P41 to P45 per kilo of regular to well-milled varieties, farmers and consumer rights advocates said. Following Marcos’ issuance of Executive Order 39 issued last...
The youngest member of Congress condemned a House of Representatives tradition granting so-called parliamentary courtesy to certain agencies of the executive branch and approving their proposed budget without deliberation. Speaking at the hearing of the Office of the...
Global groups condemn judicial harassments of rights defenders The government’s National Security Program (NSP) has the problem of poverty and underdevelopment backwards, seeing it as product of armed conflict and not the other way around, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan...
Migrante International (MI) called for a deeper investigation into reports of free riders taking advantage of the government’s repatriation program for distressed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). Reacting to Commission of Audit’s (COA) finding that thousands of...
The Communist Party of the Philippines vowed to attain justice for Benito Tiamzon, Wilma Austria and their companions it said were massacred in Catbalogan, Samar a year ago today, August 21. In a statement, CPP chief information officer Marco Valbuena reiterated their...
Farm workers condemned government’s new national security policy (NSP) they said would only worsen the culture of impunity in the country.
The country’s top forensic pathologist revealed feeling harassed by the Philippine National Police (PNP) for visits to her office in connection with her autopsy on 17 year olds Jemboy Baltazar and Kian delos Santos. Dr. Raquel Fortun said members of the Navotas...