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 “Huli” (arrest, capture) Week is in full swing in Central Luzon in the middle of Holy Week as at least three human rights defenders have been arrested and activists’ offices and houses were raided this morning, Holy Tuesday. Alerts by various...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – In the evening of Holy Wednesday, Pauline Budy limped as she made her rounds in the emergency room of San Lazaro Hospital, the country’s primary facility for infectious diseases. She is in pain. Over a week ago she...
By Raymund B. Villanueva March 26, 2021 Several groups welcomed a bill filed by Senate minority leader Franklin Drilon criminalizing red-tagging, promising to strongly lobby for its passage. Both the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) and the National Union of...
By Padre Dionito M. Cabillas March 24, 2021 The long IATF Resolution No. 104 was summarized by a friendly barangay official in the IFI parish church which I am serving. As a priest, I give special attention in regards to “No religious gatherings and face to face...
BY REIN TARINAY Bulatlat.com MANILA — Experts from the University of the Philippines’ COVID-19 Pandemic Response Team warned that the current new daily cases being reported may double in two months. “The numbers don’t lie: we are in a worse state than when we were...
By SHERWIN DE VERA BAGUIO CITY—Youth leaders in the city scored a legal victory against the government’s practice of tagging activists as recruiters and their organizations as fronts of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and New People’s Army (NPA) after the...
by David Manuel March 22, 2021 The pandemic has been harsh on seafarers. But the Duterte regime has been harsher. In the wake of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic and the Duterte regime’s disastrous response, the lives and livelihood of hundreds of...
By KIMBERLIE QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Another leader of the Cordillera People’s Alliance (CPA) is poised to face a court battle against the Cordillera region’s top cop, Brigadier General R’Win Pagkalinawan, for a cyberlibel case. CPA...
by Ken E. Cagula DAVAO CITY, Philippines – Several days after the memorandum of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) tagging Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) and COURAGE as communist fronts was exposed, the military and police arrested...
Walong pelikulang mainam na i-binge watch ngayong Buwan ng Kababaihan. by Josh Paradeza March 16, 2021 Madalas makalimutan ang maka-uring ugat ng pagdiriwang ng Pandaigdigang Araw ng Kababaihan noong Marso 8. Madalas maisantabi (mulat man o hindi) ang...
“Domestic remedies have been ineffective at providing redress and at halting continued abuses. The power imbalance between victims of state violence, and perpetrators who have the backing of government apparatuses, is grave. Structures to redress this imbalance are...
By Raymund B. Villanueva March 8, 2021 The Philippine National Police (PNP) has revealed the name of the operation in four provinces in Southern Tagalog that massacred nine and arrested several other activists Sunday, March 7. The police said it served search warrants...