EDITORIAL, Philippine Daily Inquirer /October 15, 2021 It was a scene “too hard to watch,” recalled Bobby Dumayag, Jr., whose now-viral video showed Cagayan farmers desperately chasing sacks of corn being carried away by floodwaters at the height of Severe Tropical Storm “Maring” on Monday. When the embattled farmers didn’t heed his warning about the…
By: Jane Bautista, Krixia Subingsubing – Philippine Daily Inquirer / November 02, 2021
Marking the World Day Against Cyber Censorship, independent and alternative journalists, as well as student and human rights activists and IT advocates picketed the National Computer Emergency Response Team (NICT) of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) head office at Diliman, Quezon City to press the agency to act on relentless and continuing…
Photo by John Mark Aaron Macaraeg/Bulatlat The mining company is also under investigation by nine United Nation special rapporteurs as Kalikasan PNE and Samahang Pangkarapatan ng Katutubong Magsasaka at Manggagawa Inc. (Sapakkmmi) filed a complaint last December 27, 2018. By JOHN MARK AARON MACARAEG Bulatlat.com MANILA — Indigenous communities, local government leaders, and environmental advocates…
Putting to work its National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, the Duterte government since last month has ramped up its red-tagging campaign against human rights defenders, militant people’s organizations and alliances, and left-leaning candidates in the May 13 elections. Instantly the ripostes were vigorous – denials, condemnations – from a broad range…
Dec 20, 2021 Jairo Bolledo MANILA, Philippines – Typhoon Odette, which devastated the Visayas and Mindanao, has left at least 208 people dead, according to the tally of the Philippine National Police (PNP). On Monday, December 20, PNP spokesperson Colonel Roderick Augustus Alba shared the consolidated data of the national police. Based on the tally,…