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Protect peasant communities: Civil society groups from 30 countries push urgent demands amid #COVID19 crisis
Over a hundred civil society groups from 30 countries came together to urge governments to ensure the rights and welfare ...‘Obviously planted’: Groups assail filing of illegal possession of firearms, explosives vs. Tacloban 5
With the Tacloban City Prosecutor’s Office filing charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives against a community journalist and ...Into the Unknown: Growing unease felt among victims of Taal eruption as volcanic activity subsides
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology’s lowering of Taal Volcano’s alert status from Alert Level 4 (hazardous eruption imminent) ...Health workers: New salary hike law for gov’t employees deceptive, divisive
“As a health worker, I also want my daughters to become nurses,” shares Eleazar Sobinsky. Eleazar is a nurse attendant ...A year into Memorandum Order 32: Violence in Samar and Leyte intensifies
Melvin Cabe, a 35-year-old farmer from San Miguel, Las Navas in Northern Samar, was hunting fowl in the woods for ...Negros farmers appeal for public’s help in quest for justice
When the sun rose on March 30, policemen who had barged into their house with high-powered firearms at the dead ...The village at Kaliwa Dam’s ground zero
Angeline dela Karsada was crafting a pouch out of abaca when we arrived exhausted at her hut. Apologizing for the ...Sleepless in San Juan: Villagers unite to stop demolition
Restless nights have plagued the Burol community in Kabayanan Village, San Juan City, fearing that someone might burn their homes ...CPP: Duterte’s martial law in Mindanao has wider target, purpose
“Based on a narrow pretext, but has a much wider purpose”. This was how the Communist Party of the Philippines ...#MirrorUs: Alternative media outfits launch campaign to counter cyber-attacks
Independent and alternative media outfits under Altermidya Network today launched the #MirrorUs campaign, an initiative which calls on supporters to ...
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