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Davao City shells out P42 M for Yuletide festivities
The city government has earmarked P42 million budget for the month-long celebration of Pasko Fiesta this December.
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Espina-Varona wins international award for journalists
A Filipino won one of the most prestigious global awards for journalists for her resistance to “financial, political, economic or religious pressures or because of the values and rules that enable them to resist” in reporting on issues that are sensitive in the Philippines. Cited for her many reports on child prostitution, violence against women,…
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Activists demand freedom for NDFP’s Vic Ladlad
A few hours after news of the arrest of a senior National Democratic Front of the Philippines’ (NDFP) peace consultant became public, activists trooped to Camp Karingal in Quezon City to demand for his and his companions’ release. Vicente Ladlad’s detention despite his safety and immunity guarantees from arrest and surveillance is an attack on…
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Lawyers condemn killing of colleague in Negros
Members of the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers held an indignation rally in Quezon City hours after learning that their colleague, Atty Benjamin Ramos–NUPL founding member and Negros Oriental secretary general–was killed in cold blood in Kabankalan City Tuesday night. The lawyers believed that Ramos’ murder was connected with his involvement with the struggles of…
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On the arrest of peace consultant Vicente Ladlad and his companions
Peace consultant Vicente Ladlad was arrested last night, November 7, 2018 with elderly couple Alberto and Virginia Villamor in Brgy. San Bartolome, Novaliches, Quezon City. Lawyers from the Public Interest Law Center (PILC), Ladlad’s wife Fides Lim, doctor from the Health Action for Human Rights and Karapatan are on our way to verify their whereabouts…
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Riding-in-tandem gunmen kill Bacolod rights lawyer
A human rights lawyer who responded to the massacre of Sagay farmers was shot dead in Kabankalan, Negros Occidental on Monday night.
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NDFP’s Vic Ladlad arrested
National Democratic Front of the Philippines’ (NDFP) senior peace consultant Vicente Ladlad has been arrested by the police, his wife Fides Lim announced on her Facebook account. “My husband VIC LADLAD was arrested today, November 8, around 12 midnight based on a text I got. Status: MISSING,” Lim said. Lim added Ladlad was arrested together…
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Justice for Atty. Benjamin Ramos! – Karapatan
Karapatan strongly denounces the killing of Atty. Benjamin Ramos, a people’s lawyer who inflinchingly stood alongside the poor and oppressed in Negros and a feisty human rights defender who dedicated his life to selfless service for the downtrodden. While we grieve with the family of Atty. Ben, his friends and colleagues, and the communities he…