To express one’s dissent is of course not the ultimate solution to everything, but it is incorrect to dismiss it as useless. It is only when we talk that we generate better ideas; it is only when we generate better ideas that we create better policies; it is only when better policies are created that…
By Erwin Colcol for Reportr , Esquire Philippines, May 6, 2021 Arm yourself before the campaign season. Nothing says election season in the Philippines like the trickle of opinion polls. Since the 1992 presidential vote, the first since the restoration of democracy six months prior, it has correctly gauged who is most likely to win. Critics…
By RONALYN V. OLEA MANILA — Up to the last hearing on the petitions for writ of amparo and for habeas data filed by the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL), the respondents who have red tagged and vilified the rights lawyers did not set foot inside the courtroom to prove their allegations. During the…
Photo by Ronalyn Olea/Bulatlat “The legislation can be used to violate people rights in the same way the Bayanihan Act was used for mass arrests of ECQ [enhanced community quarantine] violators. Only the anti-terror law is 100x worse.” By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Progressive organizations slammed the hasty approval of Anti-Terrorism Bill…
The Anti-Terrorism Act will serve as a fertile ground for increased cases of enforced disappearance, Desaparecidos, the organization of families of victims of enforced disappearance, warned as they commemorated the International Day of the Disappeared today, August 30. read more
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