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Salugpungan
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UN human rights body presses Phl gov’t on EJKs
In the past three years, close to 40 nations have been signing a resolution, initiated by Iceland, expressing concern over the rising number of killings related to President Duterte’s “war on drugs.” Initially they urged the Philippine government to stop the killings and undertake an impartial investigation on these cases. Subsequently they called on the…
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Winging it
The officials of the Duterte regime contradict themselves and each other daily and almost by the hour. They have, individually and collectively, outdone and are outdoing every other administration in the incoherence, contradictions, unreason, and non sequiturs of their declarations. A reality that is arguably as alarming as the lawlessness and the extrajudicial killings that…
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Artists group launches comics about killings of Negros farmers
By JOHN AARON MARK MACARAEG Bulatlat.com MANILA — Artists group Sama-samang Artista para sa Kilusang Agraryo (SAKA) launched Sauron, a comics anthology on the killings of Negros farmers, July 19 at the Pineapple Lab, Poblacion, Makati City. Sauron is filled with stories and illustrations of state forces’ killings, arrests, searches, and torture that took place…
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Karampatan ng Tao, panahon pa ni Rizal
Sa dalawang pagkakataon na nagkaroon ng pangulong nagdeklara ng batas militar sa Pilipinas, naging kasabay na halos ang malawakang tala ng paglabag sa karapatang pantao ng mga mamamayan. Kaakibat nito, ilang mga pandaigdigang samahan at mga pamahalaan ang nagpapahayag ng pagkabahala sa malawakang karahasan at sistematikong patakaran ng pamahalaan na nagsasantabi sa karapatan ng mga…
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Court allows peace consultant to undergo medical check-up
Counterclockwise (Satur Ocampo, Exuperio Lloren, Dario Tomado, Fides Lim, Vic Ladlad and Oscar Belleza discuss one of the state witnesses’ testimony during a short break in the Hilongos case hearing in Manila court. (Photo by Ronalyn V. Olea / Bulatlat) MANILA — A local court in Manila has allowed Vicente Ladlad, peace consultant of the…
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Lumad schools appeal for public support amid DepEd closure order
(BULATLAT FILE PHOTO) Indigenous children protest against continued attacks on Lumad schools during President Rodrigo Duterte’s Second State of the Nation Address. (Photo by Anjo Bacarisas/Lente) “We are saddened that the government’s mandate to recognize and uphold the right of the Lumad to education and self-determination is superseded by a militaristic approach that further marginalizes…
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Feeling faultless, looking witless
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