The Makabayan Coalition at the Supreme Court for the filing of petition against Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020. (Photo from the Koalisyong Makabayan Facebook page) “Given the vast and greater powers bestowed under the law, it will have a wide-ranging effects of violating existing constitutionally-guaranteed rights of our people, thus, the issuance of a ?shield against injustice,…
Civil society organizations in the Philippines urged international community to monitor human rights situation in the country. They appealed to the member-States of the United Nations Human Rights Council to adopt and endorse High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet’s report, including recommendations for continuous monitoring and independent and impartial investigation of the human rights…
(BULATLAT FILE PHOTO) By GEELA GARCIA Despite these loans, government was only able to spend P98.3 billion for 17.5 million households as of June 27. According to independent think-tank Ibon Foundation, the subsidy amounts to just P53 per family or P12 per person per day for the past 106 days since the COVID-19 lockdown started….
Climate activists, including Greta Thunberg, internationally renowned environmental activist, supports the call to #JunkTerrorLaw. The Anti-Terrorism Law of 2020 in the Philippines which was signed by President Rodrigo Duterte last July 4, 2020 has been subjected to a lot of criticisms and concerns from different sectors, and youth climate activists around the world are now…
COMMUNICATION academics, media advocacy groups, human rights defenders, journalists’ organizations, artists and other professionals, and even some congressmen and senators have condemned the shutdown of ABS-CBN. But national artist for literature F. Sionil Jose is among the very few writers who’re supporting the silencing of the network. The Philippine Center of PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Essayists,…
Indigenous Peoples and Moro groups denounced the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 which they fear would put them into more danger as experienced in the past.
HINDI PA TAPOS ang laban ng mamamayang Pilipino laban sa pasismo at terorismo ng estado na inihahasik ni Rodrigo Duterte kasapakat ang pulisya, militar at mga alyadong pulitiko na bumubuo sa super majority sa Kongreso. Nagdiriwang ang iilang makikinabang sa RA11749 o “Terror Law” habang nagpupuyos sa matindi galit ang malawak na hanay ng mamamayan….
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