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One may see “limited joy” this Christmas in the faces of three men who walked out of prison on December 11, a day after International Human Rights Day. They may be considered “free men” now but for them, the struggle to be free continues as they join a society that...
A fisherfolk couple from Hagonoy, Bulacan was abducted on August 30, the same day that cause-oriented groups commemorated the United Nations (UN)-declared International Day of the Disappeared. That the wife was released a day after is not a consolation in any way,...
The Philippine government is showing little signs of willingness or capacity to deliver justice to victims of human rights violations. This is the assessment made by the Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), a non-government organization promoting...
Is there a connection between acting on a case of political killing and the Japanese government’s release of funding for an irrigation project? BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com Seven months after the incident, a human rights watchdog...
Various sectors in the Cordillera continue to join the nationwide outcry against the series of political killings, for which they hold government security forces responsible. By Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY – Police released on Wednesday...
By Karl G. Ombion Bulatlat.com BACOLOD City – In an isolated highway of Hacienda Emma, Barangay (village) Manapla town, more than 50 kms north of this city, two motorcycle-riding men in ski masks blocked and shot Sanito Bargamento at around 3:15 p.m. Friday....
Even if controversial Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan is set to retire on September 11, residents of Central Luzon are still gripped in fear. They said that Palparan has failed in what he has set out to do and that the full extent of the damage he has done may only be...
NI FRANCISCO MONTESEÑA Inilathala ng Bulatlat.com Sa siyap ng mga sisiw sa ibabaw ng iyong kabaong ibinadya ang dalamhati sa di sinadyang paglisan. Papapanagutin at di patatahimikin ng mga taghoy ang mga salarin. Sa himlayan ay pinilit ka nilang dalhin at ang...
It does not look good. This was how the Southeast Asia Team of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights group Amnesty International (AI) assessed the Philippines’ record on reporting obligations to United Nations (UN) treaty bodies. BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO...
NI PHILIP ANORICO Inilathala ng Wala tayong ibang inapuhap kundi ang pagbawi sa inagaw na pangarap— isang daigdigang may sikmurang hindi nakakuyom at kinakayas ng gutom. Hindi lingid na ‘sintayog ito ng punong higera kung saan, sa gubat na mapanglaw, ay iginapos...
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BY DESAPARECIDOS Bulatlat.com This coming All Saints' Day, we, the relatives of the disappeared continue to suffer but cannot mourn. We are uncertain whether our missing loved ones are still alive or already dead. There are no graves where we can light candles or...
"Governments that forsake control over the domestic economy betray their poor farmers, workers and small and medium businesses." Posted by Bulatlat.com The recently-signed trade and investment framework agreement (TIFA) between the U.S. and the Association of...
Katotohanan na namumuhay tayo sa walang panahong pagkatakot at karahasan. Katotohanan na patuloy ang pag-igting ng pasismo ng estado, sa suporta ng imperyalismo ng U.S. Katotohanan na lahat naman tayo ay mamamatay. Katotohanan na ang tunay na buhay ay sa...
Lead, a heavy metal believed to be a health hazard, is found in Baguio drivers' blood samples, a study presented at an academic forum at the University of the Philippines (UP) in this city shows. The study, “Incidence of Lead in the Blood of Jeepney Drivers in...
With the Melo Commission just a phony, the President exonerating the AFP from any involvement in the extra-judicial killings and the CHR in limbo with regards its own investigation, whom will the families of the victims of political murders turn to for justice? By...
Amid the unabated political repression, killings and human rights violations of the administration of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA), the militant Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) has successfully carried out its 9th Regional Congress from October 21-23, 2006 in...
We have gone this far holding mass media as our own, having our trusty old watchdog, though limping and perhaps infested with fleas, bite the hands off dictators and dishonest leaders. Why let a strange collie, no matter how attractive it is, do the gate keeping?...
Here, in the first public cemetery I have ever entered, the living may not be thriving, but definitely, they are surviving among the dead. BY TRINA FEDERIS Bulatlat.com Cemeteries are for the dead. This idea was imprinted in me early on due to our semi-annual...
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