Despite the fact that time is ticking, she said, the paradigm shift from the Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals is not yet complete. By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – The end of the first half of President Rodrigo Duterte’s term happens to coincide this year with the first review of progress of every…
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Heading to watch a film this month? Gabriela Women’s Party, along with the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB), has recently launched video campaigns tackling the need to break common and unfair gender stereotypes. Currently being aired on all cinemas nationwide are the three films…
(Photo courtesy of Migrante International) “Rather than push OFWs to pay for social security, the government should push the employers to pay and ensure their workers’ security.” By ALYSSA MAE CLARIN bulatlat.com MANILA — A migrant rights group called for the repeal of a law that requires overseas Filipino workers to cough up a monthly…
By ALON SEGARRA Bulatlat.com “…contemporary performances seem interested in exploring the range of ways in which ‘reality’ can be produced, explored, and understood. Or, to put it another way, the ways in which ‘make-believe’ is made believable.” (C. Turner and S. Behrnt 2008: 188) ‘Sa Digma ng Halimaw, Isang Dokyu Teatro’ is neither fiction nor…
Contributed photo. “Unionism is not terrorism.” By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Eugene Garcia, union president at one of the oldest and most profitable industrial glass manufacturers in Manila, just attended a hearing at the National Conciliation and Mediation Board (NCMB) on March 20 when he came home to news that the police searched his…
Si Anna Kapunan, kasama si Clemente Bautista, international coordinator ng Kalikasan, at si Sister Mary John Mananzan, sa People’s Agenda Summit noong 2016. Mula sa Facebook ni Anna Kapunan Panata namin na wag magbitiw ng luha sa pagpanaw ni Anna Kapunan, huwarang maka-kalikasan, matapang na makabayan, at mapagmahal na ina, asawa, at kaibigan, dahil mahigpit…
(BULATLAT FILE PHOTO) Mrs. Edita Burgos. “Human rights defenders helping the victims and survivors, as well as those working to expose the real situation of extensive rights violations on the ground should not be subjects of attack.” – political prisoners By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Victims of human rights violations and their…
ARRESTED. NDF consultant Frank Fernandez and his wife Cleofe Lagtapon are arrested for illegal possession of firearms and explosives in Laguna. PNP photo By RAYMUND B. VILLANUEVA Kodao Productions The Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Philippine Army finally surfaced National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) peace consultant Francisco “Ka Frank” Fernandez after arresting…