Gabriela Women’s Party on Monday filed House Resolution No. 1970 seeking for a congressional inquiry on the arrest and detention of its volunteer worker in Butuan City.
International human rights groups join Karapatan in calling for the release of 62-year old Teresita Naul, a human rights defender who will face trial this Friday, July 12, on charges that she is a top leader of communist rebels.
As the easing of movement restrictions begins in some parts of the country, many Filipinos remain unsure about the real extent of the spread of COVID-19, and anxious about the government’s capacity to control it. Has the government used the past two months of a nationwide lockdown to not only “flatten the curve” (or stem…
The Supreme Court’s decision favoring the quo warranto petition to remove Chief Justice Lourdes Sereno from office pose a dangerous precedent for democracy, progressive groups said.
The UN experts said Bachelet’s report confirmed their findings and warnings issued over the last four years: widespread and systematic killings and arbitrary detention in the context of the war on drugs, killings and abuses targeting farmers and indigenous peoples, the silencing of independent media, critics and the opposition. The post UN submits PH rights…
Among those who went early to vote is this 69-year-old resident of Matina, Davao City who immediately scanned the list of voters posted near her polling precint at the Daniel R. Aguinaldo National High School on Monday, May 13, 2019. (Kath M. Cortez/davaotoday.com)
Workers, urban poor, peasants and other sectors march along Espana during the Labor Day protest in Manila. (Photo by Loi Manalansan / Bulatlat) “We have the worst hunger, unemployment, killings and when we protest and organize we are called ‘criminals.’ RELATED STORY: A slice of life of Filipino women workers By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA…