“The criminalization of activists and rights defenders is apparently the standing mandate of all agencies of government, regardless of whoever is appointed – from the Justice Department, the military, the police, and down to the local government. This practice of lumping together the names and pictures of progressives and labeling them as “terrorists” to justify…
Meranaw women observe their 3pm As’r prayers on Tuesday, April 17, 2018, as they remain vigilant in defending their homes against a demolition threat in Barangay 26-C Salmonan in Davao City. (Kath M. Cortez/davaotoday.com)
The Philippine government must have thought her subversive and wanted her punished. Last April 16, Bureau of Immigration (BI) agents arrested and detained Sr Patricia Fox of the congregation Notre Dame de Sion. The arrest may have stemmed from her recent participation in a human rights fact-finding mission in Mindanao that so-rankled the military. Australian…
Families of missing National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) consultant called on the military to surface Lora Manipis and New People’s Army (NPA) member Jerwel Domingo who were last seen in Kidapawan City, February this year.
Karapatan decries the illegal arrest and detention of Sr. Patricia “Pat” Fox, NDS, a missionary of the international Roman Catholic congregation of women Sisters of Our Lady of Sion, from the Congregacion de Notre Dame de Sion (Congregation of Our Lady of Sion). Sr. Pat, 71, is an Australian citizen who holds a missionary visa…
Compostela Valley province is getting ready as the newest participant of the Visit Davao Summer Festival (VDSF) set on April 30 to June 15.
Kilalang tourist destination ang white beaches ng Pagbilao, Quezon. Pero alam niyo ba na ang coal-fired power power plant na nag-o-operasyon dito ay may masamang epekto sa karagatan at kabuhayan ng mga mangingisda? Panoorin ang dokumentaryong ito. The post Pagbilao coal-fired power plant: Epekto sa mga mangingisda appeared first on Altermidya.
By Kalikasan PNE Calling the proposed charter change (cha-cha) a “war against the environment,” former Chief Justice Hilario Davide Jr. said the constitutional amendments threaten a “catastrophic environmental crisis and grave intergenerational injustice.” In his keynote speech in a public forum on the ecological implications of cha-cha held at the Miriam College Environmental Studies Institute…