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 FRANCK DICK ROSETEBulatlat.com CAGAYAN DE ORO — On National Children’s Month, various groups urged the current Marcos Jr. administration to prioritize the young indigenous peoples’ (IP) right to education by reopening the Lumad schools that were forcibly shut down...
Ni CARMELA APATPinoy Weekly Hindi na nakabalik sa pag-aaral, lumaki sila nang hindi nakapag-aral at walang pormal na trabaho.” Ito ang naging kalagayan ng comfort women ayon kay Lila Pilipina executive director Sharon Cabusao-Silva matapos ang malagim na karanasan sa...
By SHERWIN DE VERAwww.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY—The Supreme Court’s recent issuance of the Writs of Amparo and Habeas Data for two indigenous rights activists who have been missing since April 28 last year has brought “renewed hope” to their families. The families’...
By SHERWIN DE VERAwww.nordis.net QUEZON CITY— “Systematic and deliberate” was how Leonida Tundangui, executive director of the Baguio-based non-profit Katinnulong Daguiti Umili iti Amianan a Luzon (Kaduami), described the series of charges filed against development...
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...
By DOMINIC GUTOMANBulatlat.com MANILA – A Molbog indigenous peoples leader is accused of “grave coercion” by a former executive of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP). Eusebio Pelayo, 69, a community leader and a Molbog resident in Mariahangin,...
By RAIZZA P. BELLOBulatlat.com ALIAGA, NUEVA ECIJA – Bernardo Trinidad picked up a pale brown palay (rice). He held it by his wrinkly palm and stared at it for a moment. “In farming, your harvest isn’t certain unless it’s already in a sack,” Trinidad said in Filipino...
Ni CHARLES EDMON PEREZPinoy Weekly Nanawagan ang Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) ng katarungan para sa beteranong unyonistang si Jude Thaddeus Fernandez na pinaslang ng mga ahente ng pulisya noong Set. 29, 2023 sa Binangonan, Rizal. Nagtungo ang KMU nitong Nob. 21 sa Office...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMILBulatlat.com MANILA – United Nations mandate holders expressed deep concern on the terrorism and terrorist financing charges against 27 development workers of Cebu-based non-government organization Community Empowerment Resource Network Inc....
By SAMANTHA GAMBOTwww.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY—Each year, farmers like Aldrin Vigan experience the grim realities of damaged and withered crops and market uncertainties after each storm. Even when vegetables make it to market, poor quality often results in wastage or...
[UPDATED] Progressive groups urged Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to swiftly grant clemency to Mary Jane Veloso after the president announced the human trafficking victim is coming home after nearly a decade and a half in an Indonesian death row. In a statement Wednesday,...
By SHERWIN DE VERAwww.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY—The Cabacanan Small Reservoir Irrigation Project (CSRIP) in Pagudpud town, Ilocos Norte, offers a myriad of potential benefits for farmers once completed in 2028: increased cropping intensity, higher crop yield, more farm...