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Proposed amendments to Human Security Act violates human rights – progressive groups
The proposed amendments to the Human Security Act (HSA) of 2007 is tantamount to “undeclared but legislated” nationwide martial law, Kabataan party-list Rep. Sarah Elago warned on Monday as she denounced the Duterte administration’s “draconian and over-broad counterinsurgency legislation.”
Surveillance equipment from UK may be used by PH gov’t to spy on activists, rights defenders
Karapatan today scored the recently reported sale of $200,000 British surveillance equipment to the Philippine government, in the light of the listing of more than 600 persons, human rights defenders and critics of the Duterte government in the proscription petition filed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) at a regional court in Manila on February…
More than 3,300 arrested across Russia as protests swell for jailed opposition leader Navalny
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City gov’t extends Q1 real property payments until June
The payment for the first installment of real property taxes has been extended by the city government of Davao for three months, or until the end of June this year.
Pandemic scars: More Filipinos to remain poor, unemployed even by 2022
Feb 4, 2021, Ralf Rivas MANILA, Philippines The Philippines’ poverty and unemployment rates will remain elevated even after President Rodrigo Duterte steps down from office, as the pandemic scars the labor market Philippine state economists see unemployment staying elevated and more people remaining below the poverty line until 2022, as the coronavirus pandemic leaves scars…