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Bulatlat file photo The Congress-approved Senate version does not prohibit fixed-term and multi-layered contracting as demanded by workers. Its provision on penalties and fines on employers and agencies engaged in illegal labor-only contracting is weak. By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA — Various labor organizations, except the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), have expressed…

IT expert Lito Averia discusses the many ways automated election results could be compromised. On top of coercive activities of the police and military forcing the people not to vote for the opposition and the progressives, on top of humongous campaign ads of administration bets, the automated election system itself can and may have been…

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Officers of Karapatan, Rural Missionaries of the Philippines and Gabriela file a petition for writ of amparo and writ of habeas data before the Supreme Court, May 6. (Photo courtesy of Karapatan) “We reiterate that activism and the full exercise of our civil and political rights is not a crime. While we continue with our…

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Advocates stage a protest action near the Senate building, May 28, as ‘anti-children’ measures are being fast tracked. (Photo by John Aaron Mark Macaraeg / Bulatlat) “We are very much enraged! The Duterte government has been consistently violating children’s rights from poverty, neglect of social services, ‘Oplan Tokhang’ to incarceration of children in conflict with…

By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – A few days before Marklen Maojo Maga’s scheduled judgement hearing, rights defenders, youth activists, relatives and fellow unionists held an action May 28 at the gates of the Department of Justice. They called for the junking of false charges against the imprisoned trade union activist Maoj Maga, and for…