The Negros Island contingent of the International Learning and Solidarity Mission (ILSM) has urged the government to revoke the Integrated Forest Management Agreement (IFMA) granted to Hacienda Asia Plantations Inc. (HAPI) after documenting and confirming cases of human rights violations, labor...
Paghida-et sa Kauswagan Development Group, Inc. (PDG), a non-governmental organization supporting farmers in Souther Negros, has condemned the surveillance of its Kabankalan office by two armed men on a motorcycle on the morning of January 17, 2025, calling the...
(First of two parts) By RJ Ledesma/Paghimutad Local officials claim the palm oil operation is a “blessing”. But the indigenous peoples and farmers cry foul over the company’s deceptive tactics that they claim robs them of land and life. In this two-part story,...
Paghimutad Negros, an alternative media outlet based in the Negros Island Region, drew attention to the ongoing attacks against community journalists in a meeting with Irene Khan, the United Nations Special Rapporteur (UNSR) on Freedom of Opinion and Expression, last...
Southern Negros residents allege threats and coercion by the military and NTF-ELCAC, citing false NPA ties and pressure to disassociate from PDG, sparking concerns for their livelihoods and rights.
The families of the three enforced disappeared persons have already filed a report with the police as they have not received any communication or information about their whereabouts since then.
Human rights group Karapatan-Negros condemned the killing of farmer Jose Gonzales who was earlier reported as missing.
The report asserts the three victims were not elements of the NPA. Christina Sandot Jacolbe was a daycare teacher in Sitio Natuling in Barangay Budlasan.
Five years ago today, at 8:30pm, suspected state agents shot dead peasant leader Alexander Ceballos near his house in Purok Tangke, Brgy. Pandanon Silos, Murcia, Negros Occidental.
Commemorating a year of struggle against privatization, Baciwa Employees Union – NAFLU and Amlig Tubig Coalition trooped in front of the Baciwa district office earlier today, January 4, to hold a mass and an indignation rally.
On May 10, 1933 in Nazi Germany, students and stormtroopers burned close to 35,000 books deemed “Un-German” on the Opera square in Berlin. After all the books have been tossed into the bonfire, German Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels...
A fact-finding mission in Southern Negros documented a killing, multiple cases of harassment and assault toward farmers in indigenous communities allegedly perpetuated by soldiers.
Guihulngan City – Human rights group HUSTISYA Guihilngan refutes the AFP’s claim of an encounter with the New People's Army (NPA) on August 14 that killed a civilian in Guihulngan City. In a statement, the group said that there was no encounter, and that the 62nd...