By JAZHEEL C. SARINO Indigenous peoples (IPs) in Mindanao continue to suffer inequality, discrimination, and violence despite making up a significant portion of the region's population. This was pointed out by lawyer Raymond Marvic Baguilat, senior lecturer and lead legal officer of the...
Angeline dela Karsada was crafting a pouch out of abaca when we arrived exhausted at her hut. Apologizing for the disturbance, we asked if we could use her bench to eat our very late lunch. The light was already slant and golden. On the doorpost, a small, rather faded...
Restless nights have plagued the Burol community in Kabayanan Village, San Juan City, fearing that someone might burn their homes to the ground—small shacks made of wood, tin sheets, and a little bit of low-quality concrete. “Hindi ako makatulog. Alam mo naman ‘yang...
“Based on a narrow pretext, but has a much wider purpose". This was how the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) described President Rodrigo Duterte's declaration of military rule in Mindanao following armed encounters between the Philippine Army and Maute Group....
Independent and alternative media outfits under Altermidya Network today launched the #MirrorUs campaign, an initiative which calls on supporters to create a mirror copy of their websites that have been the subject of unrelenting cyber-attacks in the past months. “The...
Marking the World Day Against Cyber Censorship, independent and alternative journalists, as well as student and human rights activists and IT advocates picketed the National Computer Emergency Response Team (NICT) of the Department of Information and Communications...
Sa gitna ng mga panawagang magbitiw sa pwesto si National Youth Commission (NYC) chairman Ronald Cardema, dapat din daw itong paimbestigahan sa posibleng paggamit nito sa ahensya para ikampanya ang Duterte Youth Party-list, na siya rin ang pinuno. Posibleng ginagamit...
PRESIDENT Duterte’s tirades against the Church are said to have bred the ongoing intimidation against people of faith. This has prompted various Christian denominations and groups to gather on January 25 in Manila to denounce what they call the incessant attacks and...
Ibinandera sa balita ng malalaking network sa telebisyon ang diumano’y pagbaba ng presyo ng mga bilihin noong nakaraang Kapaskuhan. “Bumaba ang inflation sa 5.2 porsiyento nitong Disyembre,” masayang ibinalita ng Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), habang...
Tinanong namin ang ilan sa mga taga-Mindanao na dumalo sa kilos-protesta noong Disyembre 10, International Human Rights Day, sa Mendiola: Paano nilabag ng administrasyong Duterte ang inyong karapatang pantao? JAMCY PINATUGAO, ASAWA NI PINA PINATUGAO, PINATAY NA LUMAD...
Pinagtibay kamakailan ng Korte Suprema ang Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) Memorandum 20 (CMO 20) na nagtatanggal sa wikang Filipino bilang isa sa mga batayang sabdyek na kailangang kunin sa kolehiyo. Sa kabila ito ng paghahain ng temporary restraining order...
THE DUTERTE administration is rehashing the same old recipe in preparing its P3.757 trillion proposed national budget, as it is laden with pork barrel while at the same time scrimping funds for social services. Legislators from the Makabayan bloc in the House of...
PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo Duterte and US President Donald Trump are set to face trial for “crimes against the Filipino people” before the International People’s Tribunal (IPT 2018), which will convene in Brussels, Belgium from September 18 to 19. IPT 2018 is a...