By DOMINIC GUTOMANBulatlat.com MANILA – At the start of the year, fisherfolk under the banner of Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya (Pamalakaya) call on the government to review clean energy projects that trample the human rights and welfare of coastal communities. In a statement,...
By DONNA PETAwww.nordis.net LAOAG CITY—The family, human rights groups, and the revolutionary movement continue to call for the release of Cordillera rebel leader Simon Naogsan on humanitarian grounds and his “protected status” under the security and immunity pact...
By MAVIC CONDEBulatlat.com ALBAY, Legazpi City — Oas Mayor has asked the national government for financial aid to urgently reconstruct the town’s collapsed dike, causing life-threatening mud floodings in downtown villages along Cabilogan River during the onslaught of...
By REYNARD MAGTOTOBaretang Bikolnon What the military claim as rebels killed in an encounter in Masbate were actually farmers tending to their carabao by the river. Relatives of slain farmers Ronel Abril and Roger Clores belie the claim of the 2nd Infantry...
By JACINTO LINGATONGBulatlat.com SAN PABLO, Laguna —The Katipunan ng mga Samahang Magbubukid sa Timog Katagalugan (KASAMA-TK) reported the arrest and continued harassment of 29 Iraya Mangyan farmers and their families in Hacienda Almeda, Abra de Ilog, Occidental...
By SHERWIN DE VERAwww.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY—Indigenous peoples’ organizations have joined the growing call for the dismissal of terrorism financing complaints against a storekeeper in the Cordillera, denouncing them as unjust. Katribu and the Bai Indigenous Women’s...
The Duterte dynasty may have misused confidential and intelligence funds (CIF) over the years as reward money in the extrajudicial killing of drug personalities as well as their critics, House Deputy Minority Leader and ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro...
Research group IBON said that the Philippines having the third worst incidence of severe and moderate food insecurity in Southeast Asia shows the Marcos Jr administration’s failure on multiple development fronts. Amid the run up to the 2025 midterm elections, the...
By DOMINIC GUTOMANBulatlat.com MANILA — An international human rights group identified Meta as a main digital vehicle for red-taggers and online harassers of young human rights defenders (HRDs) in the Philippines. Amnesty International Philippines (AIPh) launched...
Ni JORLAND SALANDOPinoy Weekly Nagpiket sa harap ng Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) noong Okt. 10 ang mga kaanak ng mga overseas Filipino worker (OFW) sa Lebanon upang makipagdiyalogo hinggil sa agarang pagpapalikas ng mga Pinoy na naiipit sa pambobomba ng Israel...
By SHERWIN DE VERAwww.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY—Indigenous groups and rights advocates have condemned the congressional bid of individuals known for red-tagging indigenous peoples (IP) and activists, calling on the Commission on Elections to disqualify the group from the...
Ni MARC LINO ABILAPinoy Weekly Nitong Hulyo, nanalasa at nagdulot ng matitinding pagbaha ang Bagyong Carina sa Kamaynilaan at katabing lalawigan ng Rizal. Isa ang Marikina City na muling naapektuhan ng malakas na ulan at pagbaha. Naitala ng lungsod ang isang “record...
By FRANCK DICK ROSETEBulatlat.com CAGAYAN DE ORO – “Is there a reason to celebrate?” Roland Cruz, Northern Mindanao coordinator of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT), posed this question in relation to the observance of World Teachers’ Day last week, Oct. 5....