Sixty-seven-year old Ma. Cristina Teofilo walks with a limp as she keeps pace
with other senior citizens who are joining this annual commemoration of the Filipino Elderly Week on Monday.
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By: Kurt Dela Peña – Content Researcher Writer /Philippine Daily Inquirer /December 10, 2021 MANILA, Philippines—“I don’t care about human rights.” Lost in those words uttered by Rodrigo Duterte as president in 2020 was the value of human rights not just as a vague idea or concept but as a key cog in the machinery…
We in the alternative media denounce the unlawful arrest of Margarita Valle, veteran Mindanao-based journalist and a columnist of Davao Today. Valle was arrested at the Laguindingan airport on June 9 by the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) reportedly based on two arrest warrants dated 2006 and 2011. She was forced to come with…
QCPD Director PCSupt Guillermo Lorenzo T. Eleazar leads the simultaneous Oplan Tokhang operations at Batasan Police station (PS-6), Quezon City, January 29, 2018. INQUIRER PHOTO / NIÑO JESUS ORBETA While the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) saw improvement in the police’s anti-illegal drug operations, the Philippine National Police (PNP) could not promise that no one will…
Jan 28, 2022, Mara Cepeda This signals the coming together of the liberals and leftists, who have been at loggerheads these past months MANILA, Philippines – After months of tension between the liberals and leftists, the progressive Makabayan bloc has endorsed the presidential bid of Vice President Leni Robredo and her running mate Senator Kiko…
“The advancement of broad, vague and overly abrasive definition and legislation relating to terrorism can have the opposite of the intended effect which is that by silencing voices, by cracking down on civil society, by weakening the due process and protections offered by the criminal justice system that doesn’t strengthen the States by rather weakening…