“We call on all member states of the UN Human Rights Council to be seized of the seriousness of the human rights situation in the Philippines and to adopt all the recommendations in your June 30 report on the human rights situation in the Philippines,” ICHRP Chairperson Peter Murphy said in his letter to Bachelet….
Farmers from Norzagaray worried of their harvest left hanging to dry or rot on the land they could no longer access, for fear of retaliation from armed goons roaming the area. (Photo by Nikki Teng / Philippine Collegian) “Regional inequalities in the country can be reduced by providing economic dynamism in rural areas, which have…
Human rights alliance Karapatan today expressed cynicism on Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Menardo Guevarra’s statement on an investigating team from the department’s task force on Administrative Order No. 35 to probe the killing of elderly peasant leader and peace consultant Randall “Randy” Echanis. read more
Apr 20, 2021 Dwight De Leon MANILA, Philippines The pioneering makeshift, sidewalk free food station serving the needy reopens Wednesday The woman whose trailblazing community pantry initiative inspired thousands of Filipinos to extend a similar helping hand to the needy has had enough of the red-baiting. Ana Patricia Non, in a virtual press briefing she…
Joanna Patricia Kintanar Cariño (File photo by Noel Godinez/Northern Dispatch) “Whatever the suppression, however, they failed to stop her continuing courageous actions, inspiring global citizens throughout the world, and thus was selected her (Cariño) as the winner of the 2019 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights,” it added. By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA –…
Philstar.com November 22, 2022 | 4:28pm MANILA, Philippines — We have a secret to tell you. Did you know that there is around P9.28 billion in the proposed 2023 budget that we would never know how it would be spent? That is because they are confidential and intelligence funds — lump sum allocations to civilian…