The Committee on Agrarian Reform at the House of Representatives is seeking to amend the age requirement of heirs of landowners under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law.
Karapatan condemned the recent spate of arbitrary arrests of two activists and two indigenous peasants by the Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines. “This spate of brutality by soldiers and the police towards innocent civilians is already the rule rather than the exception for this government. These violations of human rights…
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Philippines – Members of a tribal community in Bukidnon went to the regional office of the…
Washington, DC, US – “While General Jovito Palparan was charged and is now prosecuted for the disappearance of two women activists, he is yet to be prosecuted for the killings of more than 200 activists during the Arroyo regime. We call on Pres. Duterte and the Department of Justice (DoJ) to hold Palparan accountable for…
September 4, 2018 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines condemns the sentencing of our Myanmar colleagues Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo of the Reuters news agency to seven years in jail under that country’s Official Secrets Act. Myanmar has effectively outlawed freedom of the press and belied all its claims of democratization….
By: Julie M. Aurelio, Leila B. Salaverria, Melvin Gascon – Philippine Daily Inquirer / August 18, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Lawmakers defended the Commission on Audit (COA) on Tuesday after it received a verbal flogging from President Rodrigo Duterte for flagging deficiencies in the use by the Department of Health (DOH) of its allotments and…
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