‘By militarizing, terrorizing, and Red-labeling, Duterte hopes to create a climate of fear that would allow him to keep power or pass it on to a trusted successor in order to escape accountability for the crimes of his regime’ Dec 12, 2020, Vergel O. Santos There’s every reason – much of it clinical, to be…
Bella Perez-Rubio (Philstar.com) – December 12, 2020 MANILA, Philippines — The arrests of six trade unionists and a journalist in a single day — and for the same charge — have been slammed by an international rights watchdog as being highly questionable. “The accused claim that police planted evidence to justify the charges against them. It is…
Xave Gregorio (Philstar.com) – December 8, 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Even with no jobs at home, hiring of Filipino migrant workers is on track to its lowest level in nearly 3 decades due to sprawling lockdowns that stopped deployment, putting the Philippines’ main dollar source at risk of future decline. From January to October, 693,237…
Kristine Joy Patag (Philstar.com) – December 11, 2020 MANILA, Philippines (Updated 4:56 p.m.) — The number of activists charged with illegal possession of firearms and of explosives continues to rise with the arrest of six trade union organizers and a journalist on Thursday, on the International Human Rights Day. National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers president…
Kristine Joy Patag (Philstar.com) – December 10, 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Six trade union organizers and a journalist were arrested Thursday as the world commemorated International Human Rights Day. Human rights advocates and progressive groups in the morning of December 10 marched to Mendiola to commemorate the International Human Rights Day as they called for…
Migrante International News, December 9, 2020 More than a month after immediate relatives called on the Duterte government to rescue 52 OFWs locked up at the Philippine Embassy’s shelter in Syria, 38 Filipino women who were victims of human trafficking, illegal recruitment and abuse continue to languish under subhuman conditions. Included in this group were…
Dec 9, 2020, Mara Cepeda/JC Gotinga MANILA, Philippines The proposed budget includes P72.5 billion for the purchase of COVID-19 vaccines next year Congress on Wednesday, December 9, passed the proposed P4.5-trillion trillion budget for 2021, the first to be crafted under President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration amid the coronavirus pandemic. Both chambers of Congress separately ratified…
By: Gabriel Pabico Lalu – Reporter /INQUIRER.net / 11:45 PM December 09, 2020 MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte’s distancing from the so-called narcolist that is being blamed for the killing of Mayor Caesar Perez of Los Baños, Laguna, is “the height of hypocrisy” and a way to steer clear of any responsibility, international observer…