4Ps: Myopic, artificial approach to poverty

MANILA – Youth groups’ protest action faced police violence after trooping to the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) last May 30 to decry the “worsening state of education” in the country. Three members of the group present in the activity were grabbed by officers after defacing the gates of the commission but were released after…

(Photo by Carlo Manalansan/Bulatlat) By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA — The 14th Division of the Court of Appeals dismissed the petitions for the writ of amparo and habeas data filed by Karapatan, Rural Missionaries of the Philippines (RMP), and Gabriela, June 28. In the decision penned by Associate Justice Mario Lopez, the appellate court…

“Whether they like it or not, the government is responsible for human rights. Not the UN Special Rapporteurs, the civil society. This is the responsibility that they all (States) have signed.” By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – The Philippine government has an obligation to protect and uphold the human rights of its citizen,…