1. Why did the Duterte regime railroad the passage of this new anti-terror bill? What urgency does it see in the passage of this bill? JMS: Following the Duterte regime‘s certification of the so-called anti-terrorism bill as urgent, the Lower House has approved it like the Senate has already done. The regime is railroading the…
Filipino migrant leaders hit Duterte’s mandatory Philhealth and premium rate hike due to resume next week. Raised calls for amendments through Makabayan bloc’s House Bill 6698 Five days to go before the full-scale implementation of President Duterte’s mandatory Philhealth membership and premium rate hike under his Universal Healthcare Law, leaders and representatives from different Filipino…
Yesterday’s Pride protest in Mendiola had 20 LGBTQIA+ rights activists and supporters arrested and detained by police operatives for supposed violations of the Public Assembly Law (BP 880) and Article 151 of the Revised Penal Code on “Resistance and Disobedience to a Person in Authority or the Agents of such Person” in relation to RA…
Precisely as how we saw it coming, the US-Saudi conflict with Yemen has now escalated into a full-blown ground battle advancing ever deeper into Saudi’s inland territory.
During the first hearing of the amparo case filed by our clients Karapatan, Gabriela and Rural Missionaries of the Philippines yesterday, the 14th Division of thd Court of Appeals unfortunately disallowed them from fully presenting evidence and supporting their legitimate claims.
“The attacks against the national minorities also escalate as activists are killed in other parts of the country. Mangyan communities recently sent distress calls due to AFP operations. Makeshift houses of Lumad bakwit were demolished by the Misamis Oriental LGU,” Kerlan Fanagel, a Lumad council member of Sandugo-Movement of Moro and Indigenous Peoples for Self-Determination said today.
The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) joins the calls for a thorough investigation on the brazen shooting of a provincial prosecutor in Oriental Mindoro yesterday.
The rascal Duterte is promoting vigilantism and criminality under his direction. He is practically though unwittingly urging the justice-seeking people to kill him as the No. 1 criminal and traitor in the Philippines as well as the other big plunderers and mass murderers in his government.