Xave Gregorio – Philstar.com, April 5, 2022 MANILA, Philippines — House hearings are being sought over an interview with convicted kidnapper Jovito Palparan Jr. aired on Sonshine Media Network International, which lawmakers said may have violated rules on the activities of inmates. Reps. Eufemia Cullamat, Carlos Zarate and Ferdinand Gaite (Bayan Muna) filed House Resolution…
Jan Milo Severo – Philstar.com, April 5, 2022 MANILA, Philippines — Celebrities Vivian Velez and Rez Cortez led the launching of the Bayad Buwis Movement on Thursday aiming to get the P203 billion unpaid estate taxes of the Marcos family. Vivian said that the event, which gathered around 3,000 people in Quezon City Memorial Circle,…
Apr 4, 2022, Rappler.com Nilabag ni Badoy ang dalawang karapatang ginagarantiya ng Konstitusyon: ang due process at freedom of association Maikli lamang ito dahil wala talaga kaming interes o gana pang pag-usapan si Badoy – si Lorraine Badoy. Ano pa ba ang sasabihin tungkol sa reyna ng basura na puwedeng magtayo ng kastilyo ala Disney…
by MG Amsterdam “It make sense naman ang dahilan ng ilan sa mga Pilipino na OK lang na iboto yung kinukwestyon ng iba diyan. Una, marami talaga ang naghihirap sa Pilipinas, marami ang nagugutom, marami ang walang trabaho at walang lupa. Dahil walang industriyalisasyon, walang tunay na reporma sa lupa at wala naman talagang makabuluhang…
Philstar.com, March 29, 2022 MANILA, Philippines — A coalition of rights groups launched Tuesday a campaign to urge foreign governments to impose sanctions on President Rodrigo Duterte and other Philippine officials for allegedly violating human rights. The International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines said in a statement that it will be working with…
By: Daniza Fernandez – Reporter / INQUIRER.net / March 28, 2022 MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte should enjoy his 77th birthday on March 28 as “it might be his last outside a prison cell,” the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) said Monday. “In a few months, as soon as he steps down from…
By: Cathrine Gonzales – Reporter / INQUIRER.net / March 29, 2022 MANILA, Philippines — Impunity among perpetrators has provided the breeding ground for extrajudicial killings and human rights violations to flourish in the Philippines under the Duterte administration’s drug war, according to Amnesty International. In its report for 2021 to 2022, the human rights watchdog…
By: Kurt Dela Peña – Content Researcher Writer / March 24, 2022, Inquirer.net MANILA, Philippines—While Lorraine Badoy said that red-tagging is not dangerous, at least 427 activists—slain after they were red-tagged—could show otherwise, according to the human rights group Karapatan, which itself had been red-tagged. The “Danger in Dissent: Counterterrorism and Human Rights in the…