“The election of the Philippine government at the UN Human Rights Council does not absolve the Duterte government of its rights violations against the Filipino people. It does not erase the thousands killed in its murderous drug war or its spectrum of violations and scores of victims in indigenous and peasant communities. The new presidential…
“Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s most recent decision to withdraw the State’s ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is indicative of his rabid refusal to be subjected to any and all forms of investigation or scrutiny. The Duterte regime is defensively peddling the narrative that all casualties in the drug war…
HINDI PA TAPOS ang laban ng mamamayang Pilipino laban sa pasismo at terorismo ng estado na inihahasik ni Rodrigo Duterte kasapakat ang pulisya, militar at mga alyadong pulitiko na bumubuo sa super majority sa Kongreso. Nagdiriwang ang iilang makikinabang sa RA11749 o “Terror Law” habang nagpupuyos sa matindi galit ang malawak na hanay ng mamamayan….
(Photo courtesy of Concerned Artists of the Philippines) BY ALYSSA MAE CLARIN Bulatlat.com MANILA— Journalists, artists, and free expression advocates filed the 13th petition today, July 23, before the Supreme Court against RA 114979, or the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020. Joined by almost 40 individuals from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, the groups filed a petition…
Political analyst Dr. Temario Rivera describes the midterm elections as the worst in the history of automated elections. (Photo by Ronalyn V. Olea / Bulatlat) Dr. Temario Rivera of AES Watch pointed out that Comelec did not fulfill the requirements set by the law with the absence of a comprehensive source code review and digital…
Human rights group Karapatan demand an end to the spate of killings in the country believed to be perpetrated by state forces and agents.