“We are nearing December 10, commemorated as the International Human Rights Day, but we are confronted yet still by numerous and gross rights violations in succession, as well as repressive policies continuously being shoved down our throats,” said Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay in a press conference by various rights groups at a restaurant in…
By: Kurt Dela Peña – Content Researcher Writer/INQUIRER.net / August 03, 2021 MANILA, Philippines—”We were excellent.” This was how presidential spokesperson Harry Roque described the Duterte administration’s COVID-19 response last March, a year after the pandemic reached Philippine shores initially through two Chinese tourists from Wuhan, a Chinese city where SARS Cov2, the virus that…
As the number of the infected swells and threatens to overwhelm the healthcare system, the country’s medical frontliners have wisely called for the reassessment and reform of what passes for the Duterte regime’s anti-COVID-19 strategy. But they did not include in their proposals the need to address the possibility that we may also be in…
Kristine Joy Patag – Philstar.com November 8, 2021 MANILA, Philippines (Updated 3:23 p.m.) — Less than a week before elections to the panel, more than 150 lawyers raised their objection to the nomination of presidential spokesperson Harry Roque to the International Law Commission. A total of 152 lawyers wrote to nearly 200 Permanent Missions and…
Published October 10, 2021, www.gmanetwork.com/news/pinoyabroad/news A Filipina health frontliner died in New York on Sunday (PHL time), days after she was assaulted by a mentally disturbed homeless man, the Philippine Consulate General in New York said. The Consulate General identified the victim as Maria Ambrocio, 58, from Bayonne, New Jersey. “We grieve with the rest…
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Jun 16, 2021, Mary Ann Espino Since time immemorial, I’ve been hearing a lot of things about the so-called insurgency in our country. Though I am not that involved in politics, as a probinsyana, it’s almost impossible to go through life without hearing things about both the AFP and the NPA. However, I consider them…