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…
(Philstar.com) – November 26, 2020 – 12:08pm MANILA, Philippines — To mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women yesterday, actress and TV host Maine Mendoza was launched as the new “celebrity champion” of Filipina migrant workers via Babaeng Biya(hero), the national campaign of “Safe and Fair: Realizing women migrant workers’ rights…
A comic on the old and the potential new. (Or The Old Normal, except much worse and more disgusting.) It’s now just a thing from a distant past. Except when it’s a mass gahdering. New repressive laws, more violators, so what do we do? Build bigger prisons. If you didn’t have money to buy a…
By: Christia Marie Ramos – Reporter/INQUIRER.net /January 02, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — A Filipina nurse in the United Kingdom has been awarded a British Empire Medal in recognition of her outstanding work amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Charito Romano, a staff nurse at the Arbrook House Care Home in the UK, was among those included in…
The Bangsamoro and Indigenous Peoples in the country are joining the massive and nationwide protest in time with the State of the Nation Address of President Rodrigo Duterte.
Reuters.Com LONDON, Oct 8 (Reuters) – Households across Europe face much higher winter energy bills due to a global surge in wholesale power and gas prices and consumer groups have warned the most vulnerable in the region could be hit by fuel poverty as a result. WHY THE HIGH PRICES? Energy companies pay a wholesale…