(Photo by Dee Ayroso/Bulatlat) MANILA — The family and friends of missing activist Jonas Burgos said they have been insulted by the Philippine government’s motion to remove from official international records 625 cases of enforced disappearances. On Feb. 14, the Presidential Human Rights Committee formally moved for the delisting of the cases during a meeting…
Farmers denounced President Rodrigo Duterte for signing the rice tariffication bill into law last Feb. 15.The law removes the quantitative restrictions on the importation of rice and imposes tariffs on rice imports. The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) said the law “is equivalent to a death sentence for the local rice industry and rice farmers.” …
Newly-weds join OBR (By C. Maningat) A newly-married couple joined the One Billion Rising yesterday, Feb. 16, at the Rajah Sulayman Park in Manila. In a Facebook post, activist Carlos Maningat said the couple chanced upon the gathering led by theater actress and OBR Global Director Monique Wilson and women’s group Gabriela. Maningat wished them…
Lumad school learners of Alternative Learning Center for Agricultural and Livelihood Development, Inc. take part in their daily collective farm work towards sustainable agriculture and consumption. (Photo by Kenneth Cadiang) By KENNETH CADIANG The post Kabataan, mga binhing sumisibol appeared first on Bulatlat.
On July 23, 2016, President Rodrigo Duterte signed Executive Order No. 2 mandating public access to information held by the agencies and offices of the executive branch. The nongovernmental organizations that had been campaigning for a freedom of information (FOI) act for decades welcomed it with cautious optimism. The Executive Order (EO) encouraged the legislature…
This week I had interesting interactions with senior citizens in some barangays of Quezon City, Manila, and the cities of Caloocan and Malabon. These were public forums that had been organized to encourage voter participation in the mid-term elections to be held on May 13. They were visibly very poor: and physically their communities haven’t…
One Billion Rising (Photo by Carlo Manalansan / Bulatlat.com) By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Now on its seventh year, Filipino women’s rights advocates once again took the streets of Manila to dance and protest the misogyny and rising tyranny in the country. “We gather today, not just to dance as part of…
DAVAO CITY, Philippines — Four soldiers were killed after communist rebels in Bukidnon successfully took over a paramilitary camp of the Army’s 1st Special Forces Civilian Active Auxiliary Patrol Base located in Green Valley, Barangay Dalwangan, Malaybalay City on Thursday, February 14. Ka Malem Mabini, spokesperson of the New People’s Army in Northern Mindanao, said…