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…
Makabayan senatorial bet Neri Colmenares challenged Ilocos Norte Governor Imee Marcos to a debate at Plaza Miranda on the issue of human rights violations during Ferdinand Marcos’ iron-fisted rule. Angered at Imee’s statement that reports of human rights violations during Martial rule were just ‘political accusations’, Colmenares said he himself was tortured and imprisoned as…
Published January 31, 2018, 10:01 PM By Chino S. Leyco The Department of Finance (DOF) said yesterday that the government’s ambitious infrastructure program will shift to “high gear” starting this year following the enactment of the first tax reform law. In a statement, Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III said the government will roll out…
Many will still remember the last few months of 2015, when the national and international limelight focused on the Lumad of Mindanao and their Lakbayan to Manila after more than a year of harassments, evacuations, and killings (such as the Lianga Massacre) perpetrated by military and paramilitary agents. “Lumad” and “bakwit” became household terms, public…
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At 27, Manuel one of the youngest in 19th Congress By: Nestor P. Burgos Jr. – Reporter / @nestorburgosINQ, Philippine Daily Inquirer /June 05, 2022 ILOILO CITY, Iloilo, Philippines — Since he was a boy, Raoul Danniel Manuel has been fascinated with numbers, patterns, problem solving and logic. “When I encounter problems and difficulties, I…