Oct 7, 2020, Jodesz Gavilan Human rights group EcuVoice fears the government will use the programs indicated in the resolution as ‘smokescreen’ to conceal apathy and disregard toward victims while continuing to attack critics Local human rights groups on Wednesday, October 7, expressed “serious reservations” about a United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution that…
Rappler.Com Oct 5, 2020, Camille Elemia MANILA, Philippines At least one fake information became the basis of an intelligence report which the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency submitted to the Senate in 2016 Since late 2018, the Philippines’ top intelligence official has been spreading fake and wrong information from pages taken down by Facebook. He justified…
September 26, 2019 WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA – On September 21, Malaya Movement DMV and BAYAN USA-DMV, together with several progressive FIlipino organizations, community members, and allies, held a vigil in front of the US Capitol to commemorate the 48th anniversary of the declaration of martial law in the Philippines, paying a candle-lit tribute to…
By: Tina G. Santos – Reporter/ Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 21, 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Several Catholic bishops on Sunday urged Filipinos not to forget the lessons of martial law, which was declared by the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos 48 years ago, amid charges that the Marcoses are bent on revising history to erode its…
By: Patricia Denise M. Chiu – Reporter, Philippine Daily Inquirer / 04:45 AM September 19, 2020 MANILA, Philippines — The European Parliament threatened to revoke the Philippines’ trading privileges with the European Union if it will not implement international conventions on human rights and urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to continue its inquiry into…
September 17, 2020, Rappler Jodesz Gavilan MANILA, Philippines The European Parliament joined the strong calls for the United Nations to lead an independent probe into widespread killings and abuses in the Philippines under President Rodrigo Duterte. In a resolution on Thursday, September 17, the Parliament urged the EU and member-states to proactively support the adoption…
September 11, 2020/ “So a murderer (will be) released for good conduct. Are we supposed to just forget that he killed Jennifer Laude because he’s done some good? Another question: you think this murderer (I’m not even gonna say his name) wasn’t treated fairly, but was it fair that Jennifer Laude was murdered out of…
By: Fate Colobong – @inquirerdotnet Philippine Daily Inquirer / August 30, 2020 MANILA, Philippines — “Golden” queens are living in a shabby apartment in Pasay City, pining for the drag shows they starred in before the COVID-19 pandemic put everything on hold. Founded in the mid-1970s, the Home for the Golden Gays shelters “indigent” elderly…