We are saddened that amid this brutal milieu, you have devoted much of your precious column space to disparage our efforts before the Supreme Court based on yardsticks you haughtily brandish on account of your Harvard “pedigree” and ability to rub elbows with who you perceive to be the rising eagles of the legal profession.
Karapatan condemned the recent killing of peasant leaders Julius Broce Barellano and Arnel Penaso, as well as the recent illegal arrest and detention of peasant organizer Pedro Lumantas, saying these rights violations further demonstrate “the Duterte regime’s contempt for the majority of poor peasants in the country.” On June 27, 2018, Barellano, 36, Chairperson of…
Overseas Filipino workers returning from Kuwait. (Photo from DFA website) Looking at history, one can say that state abandonment is very much the official disposition on which the labor export system is hinged. The Philippine government is fundamentally inclined to function simply as what sociologist Robyn Rodriguez calls a “labor brokerage state,” an institutional apparatus…
Still no executive order on ‘endo’ – Palace Philippine Star Palace: Duterte may sign ‘Endo’ EO on or before Labor Day Manila Bulletin Malacañang: Duterte EO on ‘endo’ to ‘side with labor forces’ Rappler Full coverage
News Release | April 27, 2018 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), released an urgent statement and alert condemning the “ill-treatment, arbitrary detention, and subsequent deportation of Mr. Jerome Succor Aba, and calls upon the…
“The NPA has long adhered to the Ottawa Treaty through banning the use of landmines in its operations and has been employing command-detonated explosives instead,” Naogsan said.