Committee member confirms postponement of barangay, SK polls Sun.Star Why House members want to postpone barangay, SK elections Rappler Full coverage
Migrante Europe staged an online protest last June 6 to join the growing call to junk the draconian, undemocratic and repressive Terror Bill (called Anti-Terrorism Act 2020), broadcasted live at https://www.facebook.com/ENJPPHilippines/videos/393893558159296. The Bill was railroaded in both the Senate and the Congress and it has been transmitted to the Office of the President for signing….
27 dead as cops wage drug war in Central Luzon Inquirer.net 40 police personnel recognized during PNPs founding anniversary Sun.Star Full coverage
When peasant Bernabe Ocasla, 66, was brought to a hospital in November 2016, he had already been detained for nine years for fabricated charges. He had a cardiac arrest while incarcerated at the Manila City Jail, and yet even in the hospital, his jail guards kept him handcuffed to his bed and didn’t allow the…
By: Cathrine Gonzales – Reporter / INQUIRER.net / March 29, 2022 MANILA, Philippines — Impunity among perpetrators has provided the breeding ground for extrajudicial killings and human rights violations to flourish in the Philippines under the Duterte administration’s drug war, according to Amnesty International. In its report for 2021 to 2022, the human rights watchdog…
On December 3, 2017, just minutes after the village chief of Sitio Bonglaon, Brgy. Ned, Lake Sebu and his companions left, a hail of bullets came from the hilly side of the community’s day care center. Instinctively knowing the sound of gunfire, the children stopped playing, and their mothers and their teachers cried out. Everyone…