By Pia Regalado for Reportr, Esquire Philippines Online From your neighborhood Starbucks to the Senate session hall, Tuesday’s rotating brownouts in Luzon spared no one and the operator of the power grid, NGCP, has been serving advance warnings in the last few days. For June 1 alone, the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines placed…
Hotspots, Published September 25, 2020 by Tonyo Cruz Many have practically given up on the perceived stupidity in social media and even of fellow Filipinos. Sometimes I can’t blame them for thinking that way. But the latest announcement of Facebook against “coordinated inauthentic behavior” should be helpful in clarifying the real problem. Facebook says “coordinated…
Karapatan deplores the dehumanizing strip search of a female drug suspect in a police station in Makati City as an act of cruel and degrading treatment of a person arrested and/or detained. Police personnel who were involved in the said act should be meted out with punishment under the Anti-Torture Law, while their superiors should…
Three months before the national elections, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) disqualified three party-list groups belonging to the Makabayan coalition. The Manggagawa Party-List’s appeal for accreditation as party-list organization was dismissed by Comelec. They represent the workers, migrant workers and their families, the public transport drivers and the urban poor. In its decision, Comelec said…
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Health advocates have asked the Supreme Court to direct concerned government officials to conduct proactive and efficient mass testing amid the steady increase of COVID-19 cases in the country. In a 74-page plea, health advocates sought for the issuance of a writ of mandamus, a court order…
Tanggol Bayi, an association of women human rights defenders in the Philippines, condemns the political persecution mounted by the Duterte regime against the four former Makabayan representatives. We express our support for National Anti-Poverty Commission Secretary Liza Maza. We have worked with her and her office in defining the agenda for urban poor women, especially…