The Kilusang Mayo Uno burns an effigy of President Rodrigo Duterte called “Duterthreat” during the Labor Day rally at Freedom Park in Davao City which condemns Duterte’s failure to end ‘Endo’. (Kath M. Cortez/davaotoday.com)
By: Kurt Dela Peña – Content Researcher Writer / March 24, 2022, Inquirer.net MANILA, Philippines—While Lorraine Badoy said that red-tagging is not dangerous, at least 427 activists—slain after they were red-tagged—could show otherwise, according to the human rights group Karapatan, which itself had been red-tagged. The “Danger in Dissent: Counterterrorism and Human Rights in the…
Women activists and artists perform a poem in response to President Duterte’s statement telling his soldiers to shoot women communist guerrillas in their vaginas. The poem was written by Joi Barrios-Leblanc of Bayan-USA and performed by Gleeza Joy Belandres, Maningning Vilog, Judy Taguiwalo, Sarah Elago and Angeli Bayani at the People Power Monument during the…
Various church and sectoral groups launched a campaign to defend Sr Patricia Fox, NDS from what they call is a simple harassment by the Rodrigo Duterte government. In a gathering at the Chancery of the Archdiocese of Manila in Intramuros last April 30, speakers and performers said Sr Pat was a victim of lack of…
Human rights group Karapatan questioned the Philippine government’s planned acquisition of billions of pesos worth of war materiel and armaments from the United States amid calls for increased public funding for public health services and financial aid for poor families in light of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. read more
Philippine Daily Inquirer/February 05, 2021 On Jan. 30, 2020, the Philippines had its first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus: a 38-year-old woman who had traveled from Wuhan, China, and arrived in the country nine days earlier. On Feb. 1, 2020, the country reported its first COVID-19 death: that of the 44-year-old male companion of…
Global Witness report “Defending Tomorrow” cover. BY AARON MACARAEG Bulatlat.com MANILA– The Philippines is the second deadliest country for environmental defenders, according to the latest Global Witness report. The report stated that 43 environment defenders were killed in 2019, making it second to Colombia with 64 deaths. Heather Iqbal of Global Witness, in a webinar…