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 DOMINIC GUTOMANBulatlat.com MANILA – Amid the commemoration of the International Humanitarian Law (IHL) month, rights groups reported signs of torture in the bodies of six members of the New People’s Army (NPA) in Iloilo, who allegedly died in a gunfight on August...
Ni ANACLETO ODIVERPinoy Weekly Sa Pacific Partnership 2024-2 na bahagi ng Balikatan Exercises 2024 sa lalawigan ng Albay mula Ago. 2-14, inihahanda ng United States (US) Indo-Pacific Command ang mga Pilipino, lalo na ang mga Bikolano, sa imperyalistang digma ng US...
Ni CARINA MAGTIBAYPinoy Weekly Sa inilabas na resulta ng sarbey ng Social Weather Stations para sa ikalawang kuwarto ng 2024, 23% ng mga respondent ang nagsabing wala silang inaasahan na matutupad sa mga pangako ni Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Nasa 48% naman ang...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMILBulatlat.com MANILA – Environmental group Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment assailed the Court of Appeals decision denying environmentalists Jhed Tamano and Jonila Castro’s petition for writ of amparo and writ of habeas data. The...
Ni FRANCIS VILLABROZAPinoy Weekly Pinanood namin nina Ina at Miko sa Greenbelt ang “Alipato at Muog,” entry ni JL Burgos sa Cinemalaya XX. Napakahusay ng pelikula. Sa normal na kalagayan, iko-congratulate ko si JL, kaibigan mula pa sa kolehiyo. Pero nawawala pa rin...
By JUSTIN UMALIBulatlat.com SAN PABLO, Laguna – A peasant and women’s rights advocate was arrested and subjected to “mental and psychological torture” while under detention, August 2, according to human rights groups. Fatima Banjawan, 19, is a member of women’s rights...
Bulatlat revisits the role of the government’s counterinsurgency plans in the increasing use of the terror financing law to quell and silence activists, critics, and development workers. By JANESS ANN J. ELLAOBulatlat.com MANILA – For the human rights community in the...
By JADE ABERINBulatlat.com MANILA – Two golds and a bronze as of this writing. While there is reason to celebrate, the country’s athletes are expected to perform better if the government would adequately fund the sports program. In its National Expenditure Program...
Overall inflation and food inflation are at their highest this year, hitting the poorest Filipinos with meager incomes the hardest, said research group IBON. The continuous rise in prices since the start of the year, with a significant surge in July 2024, highlights...
Environmental groups said San Miguel Corporation (SMC) must be held accountable on the latest oil spill, calling the giant company the “number one destroyer of Manila Bay.” The Kalikasan-People’s Network for the Environment and AKAP KA-Manila Bay saidSMC has again...
Nabiktima na, sinisi pa? Hindi kasalanan ng mamamayan ang pagbahang dulot ng habagat at bagyo. Para sa mga siyentista, mas may pananagutan ang administrasyong Marcos Jr. dahil sa mga palpak na flood control projects at pagkunsinti sa mga proyektong mapangwasak ng...
The visit of top level United States (US) officials is aimed at drawing the Philippines into another proxy war, evidenced by the offer of half a billion US dollars in military aid, activist group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) said. On the day of the “2+2...