Ni Jayson Enebrad | Baretang Bikolnon NAGA CITY, Camarines Sur – Nagtipon ang nasa 300 human rights activists mula sa iba’t ibang bahagi ng Bicol Region para sa ikalawang asembliya ng Defend Bicol Stop The Attacks Network noong Hulyo 18 sa Naga City. Tinalakay sa pagtitipon ang human...
By Raymund B. Villanueva June 29, 2021 Farmers and human rights groups expressed opposition to a statement by President Rodrigo Duterte ordering the arming of civilian groups to help in law enforcement, saying such move could lead to more unwarranted and merciless...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – A progressive teachers’ group hailed the decision of an Olongapo City prosecutor denying the motion for reconsideration filed by the National Bureau of Investigation against a teacher who was charged with inciting to...
By Carlo Rey Lacsamana The ongoing wave of climate protests conducted by the youth around the world reunites me to the least famous painting of the most celebrated painter in the world: Van Gogh’s Pietà which I saw a couple of years ago in Palazzo Strozzi in Florence....
June 27, 2021/ by Rosario Guzman/IBON Foundation Runaway inflation has always been our economic managers’ alibi for liberalizing importation. Food always takes a beating from this short-sighted policy, as it has the single biggest weight of 36% in the average...
by Karen Serada Ito ang panawagan ng pamilya ng mga bilanggong pulitikal na mga organisador sa paggawa sa pagsasama-sama nila bilang paggunita sa Araw ng mga Ama, ika-20 ng Hunyo 2021, sa harap ng Commission on Human Rights. Inilunsad ng ‘Free Our Unionists Network’...
By KIMBERLIE QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY—Following the unrelenting demand of the people of Bakun, the National Commission on Indigenous People-Cordillera Administrative Region (NCIP-CAR) ordered Hedcor, Inc., to shut down its three hydroelectric power plants...
June 16, 2021 By KAPATID Jesus Alegre, a 75-year-old political prisoner, his wife Morita, 74, and son Selman, 47, have been in prison for 16 years despite the fact they did not deserve even a single day behind bars. On Sunday, June 13, after months of increasing...
Trigger warning: Rape, sexual violence, torture By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com Updated June 17, 2021, 12:42 p.m. MANILA – Two Lumad farmers and a 12-year old student were killed by soldiers in Lianga, Surigao del Sur, according to human rights group...
By IVAN EMIL LABAYNE www.nordis.net To begin, I digress—here already, a puzzle, for how can you digress at the beginning when there is nothing yet to digress from? —for this shall be the flavor of this piece. Digressions. In my head, without Google’s aid, I have to...
By KIMBERLIE QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — After repeated demands from the people of Bakun, the National Commission on Indigenous People-Cordillera Administrative Region (NCIP-CAR) finally issued a notice of violation (NOV) to Hedcor, Inc. for the...
“…[t]here is a reasonable basis to believe that the crime against humanity of murder has been committed on the territory of the Philippines between 1 July 2016 and 16 March 2019 in the context of the Government of Philippines ‘war on drugs’ campaign.” By ANNE MARXZE...
June 14, 2021 Kath M. Cortez DAVAO CITY – As COVID-19 cases in Davao City continues to rise, a shortage of nurses and medical staff has prompted the head of the Southern Philippine Medical Center (SPMC) to seek help from the City Government of Davao to address...