Special gender
The year is 2019. The year of gender equality.
The year is 2019. The year of gender equality.
(Photo by Dannah Denise Agustin/Bulatlat) “The military proves that Duterte’s ‘shoot the vagina’ remark is a brutal war policy.” By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Not too long ago, President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the shooting of female armed guerrilla fighters in their vaginas to render them “useless.” He later defended his remark –…
COMMUNICATION academics, media advocacy groups, human rights defenders, journalists’ organizations, artists and other professionals, and even some congressmen and senators have condemned the shutdown of ABS-CBN. But national artist for literature F. Sionil Jose is among the very few writers who’re supporting the silencing of the network. The Philippine Center of PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Essayists,…
“There is no respite from the killings and illegal arrests. It seems that this government and its salaried mercenaries remain in a killing frenzy, targeting the poor in its twisted and militarist campaigns. As the year rolls out, the Duterte regime continues its grim legacy of outright disregard and scorn for human rights. We are…
Published February 2, 2018, 5:50 PM By Aaron Recuenco LEGAZPI CITY — Authorities here have ordered a decamp of all persons living outside the eight-kilometer extended danger zone to solve the problem of heavy congestion in the evacuation centers. Claudio Yucot, director of the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) of Bicol region, said he had…
With almost P5 billion in collection since the start of the year, the figure could well be the city’s biggest revenue collection in the City Treasure’s Office’s (CTO) history.
Imposing a two-week “modified enhanced community quarantine”(MECQ) on Metro Manila and other provinces “would still yield the already failed results of the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic” if the “anti-people leadership” of the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) is not replaced, human rights alliance Karapatan asserted. read more