In the first six months of the Marcos Jr administration, the Children’s Legal Rights and Development Center documented 12 children killed. In 2023, 20 children died in Caloocan and Manila alone. By DOMINIC GUTOMANBulatlat.com MANILA – Despite the pronouncements of lesser violence by the...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMILBulatlat.com MANILA – “Things are no better under the Ferdinand Marcos Jr. government.” This was the assertion of the Philippine delegation of the Philippine Universal Periodic Review Watch (UPR Watch) made during a side event of the ongoing 55th...
By DOMINIC GUTOMANBulatlat.com MANILA – As President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. visits the Australian Parliament, Australian senators and Filipino rights groups staged a protest in the Australian capital outside Parliament Hill today, February 29. While President...
Ni KC MANCILLA, SHIENNA GRACE SANTELICES, at KRISHA MAE SEBAPinoy Weekly Araw ng paniningil sa mga dumaraming paglabag ng administrasyong Marcos-Duterte sa mga karapatang pantao ng mamamayan ang paggunita sa ika-75 taon ng Universal Declaration of Human Rights nitong...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMILBulatlat.com MANILA – Filipino progressives held a protest action yesterday, Sept. 21, as they commemorated the 51st year since the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. imposed martial law in the country. “This is the day when Ferdinand Marcos...
Global groups condemn judicial harassments of rights defenders The government’s National Security Program (NSP) has the problem of poverty and underdevelopment backwards, seeing it as product of armed conflict and not the other way around, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan...
By Romma Mendoza ANOTHER day, another alert. Sleep is hard to come by in Southern Tagalog, a region where indiscriminate violence can happen in an instant. Here, human rights workers have neither the room for silence nor time to rest before another human rights...
TAGALOG On April 16, acting Presidential Spokesperson Martin Andanar released a statement claiming that a United States Department of State report on the human rights situation in the Philippines is “utterly devoid of bases.” Andanar was reacting to the section of the...
In his interview with ANC’s After The Fact on February 18, Narvacan Mayor Chavit Singson claimed that the more than 3,000 recorded deaths and other human rights violations recorded during the Martial Law era are only allegations. He went on to say that the number of...
Altermidya Network condemns the shooting of journalist Manuel Garcellano of alternative media outfit Umani Productions.
A 15-year-old-girl in Quezon province said in a press briefing on Jan. 21 that she was abducted, interrogated, tortured, and raped by soldiers belonging to the 59th Infantry Battallion of the Philippine Army back in 2020.
By Raymund B. Villanueva June 29, 2021 Farmers and human rights groups expressed opposition to a statement by President Rodrigo Duterte ordering the arming of civilian groups to help in law enforcement, saying such move could lead to more unwarranted and merciless...
“Domestic remedies have been ineffective at providing redress and at halting continued abuses. The power imbalance between victims of state violence, and perpetrators who have the backing of government apparatuses, is grave. Structures to redress this imbalance are...