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Int’l watchdog calls on Senate to pass Human Rights Defenders Act
By: Gabriel Pabico Lalu – Reporter /INQUIRER.net /January 25, 2022 MANILA, Philippines — An international watchdog has urged the Senate of the Philippines to pass the Human Rights Defenders Act, which is seen to protect rights workers from harassment and extrajudicial killings (EJKs). According to the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, the…
[Newspoint] The unwanted independent press
Jun 4, 2022, Vergel O. Santos I dare say press freedom is the most critical freedom to a democracy, because the press is meant to inform the people – hopefully even enlighten them – about goings-on that affect their lives When Ferdinand Marcos Jr. admitted only three organizations to the press conference he gave following…
Group cautions public vs lucky charms containing toxic metal cadmium
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Bulatlat.com | Features | Nation | NewsWhat is RITM?
(Photo grabbed from RITM website) This is a sidebar report to our special report: RITM, the missing piece in the Philippines’ mass testing capacity vs. COVID-19 By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com Established in 1981, RITM was an outcome of a series of negotiations between the Philippine and Japanese governments. The 50-bed capacity hospital was…
‘Not the time to forget’: UP chancellors push back on DND ending of 1989 accord
Christian Deiparine (Philstar.com) – January 19, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Chancellors of different University of the Philippines campuses pushed back on the defense department’s termination of the accord barring state forces in their schools, urging government to rescind the widely criticized decision. The DND’s move this week had been an apparent culmination of the Duterte…
