(Photo grabbed from the Facebook page of FNU Nasyunal) By SHEERAH ESCUDERO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Nurses and health workers organizations temporarily left their work stations to take their calls on the streets to raise social awareness on the deteriorating local working conditions of nurses and on the people’s right for health along Taft Avenue, Manila…
MANILA, Philippines — With chili-spiced or flavored “lava ice cream” in demand and awestruck tourists packing onto viewing decks, the erupting Mayon Volcano is sparking a local business boom in an impoverished region where tens of thousands of others have fled for their lives. Albay has built its image around the picture-perfect, cone-shaped Mayon, whose…
Jan 16, 2023 Editorial, Rappler.com Lahat ng acoustics ng Davos trip, sintunado. Talaga bang wala lang, makadalo lang? Davos sa Switzerland – may shared history ang lugar na ito kay Presidente Ferdinand Marcos Jr., at hindi ito puwedeng kalimutan, kahit sabihin ng isang foreign affairs undersecretary na, “I don’t think it’s an issue.” Ang Switzerland…
“The Duterte regime is a government that willfully violates people’s rights; it is not a government for the people. It has merely strengthened a system that only affords due process, justice, and privileges to the elite, leaving the rest of us as targets of rights abuses and spiraling poverty. As we mark International Human Rights…
By: John Eric Mendoza – Reporter / @JEMendozaINQ, INQUIRER.net /June 04, 2022 MANILA, Philippines — Twitter has suspended the account of Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria Sison, along with other accounts aligned with the communist movement, the party’s spokesperson said on Saturday. In a statement, CPP spokesperson Marco Valbuena said that…
Davao Today accompanied the Save our Schools Network when it conducted a national fact-finding mission comprised of various rights groups on July 27 to 30 at Barangay Basak, Lebak to investigate the incidents of harassment, and encampment of Lumad schools and communities by government troops in the province.