Troops uncover NPA food, medicines caches
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Protesters brave the rains to bring to the fore their demands. (Photo courtesy of Bahaghari) By ALYSSA MAE CLARIN Bulatlat.com MANILA— Despite the heavy onslaught of rain, members of the progressive LGBT group Bahaghari clutched their placards closer to their chest as they chanted louder under the beating rain, “Makibeki! Wag ma-shokot!” The group, joined…
In a recently published communication to the Philippine government, nine United Nations (UN) Special Procedures expressed their “extremely serious concern” on allegations of violations against human rights defenders in the Philippines. read more
Purisima Dacumos and Lorie Pasco during the Confessio Peccati in Sampaloc, Manila. (Photo by A.M. Umil/Bulatlat) “We fight not only for our sons and husbands. We do this for the killings to stop. So that there will be no more victims.” Read also: ‘There is hope’ | Mother of victim of anti-illegal drug ops welcomes…
School children, studying in Lumad schools in Talaingod, Davao del Norte, were traumatized after the military conducted an aerial strikes, earlier this week, while pursuing communist rebels, a spokesperson of the Lumad group said.
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The Phil. Drug Enforcement Agency-10 (PDEA-10) has identified 22 more village officials in Northern Mindanao…
“We are nearing December 10, commemorated as the International Human Rights Day, but we are confronted yet still by numerous and gross rights violations in succession, as well as repressive policies continuously being shoved down our throats,” said Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay in a press conference by various rights groups at a restaurant in…