The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved on third and final reading House Bill 7302 or the “Budget Reform Act,” a measure certified as urgent by President Rodrigo Duterte.
A human rights group condemned the alleged ongoing assault, particularly by government, on the members of the press in the Philippines, in time for the commemoration of World Press Freedom Day, May 3.
Human rights watchdog Karapatan raised alarm that jailing quarantine violators and shaming individuals infected with COVID-19 “would only worsen the impact of the pandemic even further” as the group assailed President Rodrigo Duterte’s orders for the Philippine National Police (PNP) to arrest individuals who violate quarantine protocols to “give [them] a lesson for all time”…
By: Gabriel Pabico Lalu – Reporter INQUIRER.net , August 11, 2020 MANILA, Philippines — The police should hand the investigation of a National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) consultant’s slay to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), a group of local lawyers said on Tuesday. In a statement, the Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG)…
Public school teachers under Alliance of Concerned Teachers give Comelec a failing grade for the problematic elections. (Photo by Anne Marxze D. Umil/Bulatlat) “Not only did they have to be resourceful in troubleshooting the machines and in exhausting all possible means to ensure that the voting process continues immediately, but they also had to endure…
There could have been no better time to begin this column but now, no other way to begin but like this – a kind of exposé, an assertion, a kind of empowerment at the face of existing and impending terror in all its forms. By identifying and unpacking systemic injustices in different levels and contexts,…