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During a Court of Appeals hearing of the petition for certiorari, prohibition, and mandamus filed by the lawyers of Rev. Berlin Guerrero, representatives from the Office of the Solicitor General admitted that the government committed lapses in due process in the...
The crackdown on overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) has begun in Kuwait. An organization of Filipino migrants reported that 40 OFWs were detained for not having the proper documents to work and stay in Kuwait. Of the 40, only 11 have been able to go home; the rest...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently issued a resolution that a Certificate of Ancestral Land Title (CALT) covering ancestral land within the city’s town-site reservation can be registered with the Land Registration Authority (LRA) and the Registry of Deeds. BY...
"They may be young but they are capable of recognizing the value of their culture this early so as to preserve and take pride in their identity as indigenous peoples," said Sammy Pulido, cultural training coordinator. BY LYN V. RAMO NORTHERN DISPATCH INDIGENOUS...
President Bush secretly approved orders in July that for the first time allow American Special Operations forces to carry out ground assaults inside Pakistan without the prior approval of the Pakistani government, according to senior American officials. BY ERIC...
(Second of 3 parts) This is a slightly revised version of the author’s presentation in Jakarta, Indonesia on July 29 and August 26 during the training of journalists from member-countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) organized by the...
(Third of 3 parts) This is a slightly revised version of the author’s presentation in Jakarta, Indonesia on July 29 and August 26 during the training of journalists from member-countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) organized by the...
Gil Lebria is not just an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) working hard to support his family back home. He has been active in defending migrants’ rights and welfare. His colleagues deemed that his advocacy is the reason behind his abrupt termination from work. They...
Does the Department of Agriculture (DA) have only three months left to stay in Manila? This is the question of employees at the Office of the Secretary (OSEC), now that there is a specific directive from the President herself to hasten the transfer of the DA office...
BY BULATLAT Posted 3:20 p.m., September 16, 2008 DAVAO CITY -- A militant group here protested the Arroyo administration's support for the presence of US troops in Mindanao during the commemoration of the 17th anniversary of the Senate vote rejecting the extension...
A human rights worker in Abra continues to receive death threats through text messages from an unidentified sender allegedly from the military. BY CYE REYES AND JUDE BAGGO Northern Dispatch HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Vol. VIII, No. 32, September 14-20, 2008 BAGUIO CITY...
Employees and caregivers of Golden Acres Home for the Aged oppose the planned transfer of the facility to Tanay—a town in Rizal province—which is 57 kilometers from Manila, saying that it would only endanger the health and well-being of the elderly, and their own...
PHOTO ESSAY BY RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 24, July 20-26, 2008 Anger. Student leaders from various colleges and universities present their reasons for calling for Arroyo’s ouster. They simultaneously tore apart papers with Arroyo’s face. Alternative...
BY ONDER DOLUTAS A letter from Rohrbach prison Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 32, September 14-20, 2008 Since May 2008, I have been detained in Rohrbach prison due to an extradition request by the government of Turkey. In order to protest the decision of Koblenz...
BY BULATLAT An organization of US-based Filipino activists has criticized the passage, by the Democrat-led US House of Representatives, of House Bill No. 6897 or the Filipino Veterans Equity Act of 2008. The bill, which was passed today by a 329-23 vote, provides...
BY BULATLAT The chapter of GABRIELA in Negros condemned the ‘unlawful arrest’ of Mary Grace Delicano. Delicano, 34, was arrested Sept. 25, around 3 p.m. by elements of Negros Occidental Provincial Police Office (NOPPO) and the intelligence unit of the 303rd...
BY BULATLAT The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan-New Patriotic Alliance) challenged Mrs. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to put into writing that she would not seek to extend her term beyond 2010. The challenge came after a United States think-tank revealed...
BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA Contributor Bulatlat An organization of government employees has urged the full disclosure of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) investments exposed to the US stock markets. GSIS President and General Manager Winston Garcia said...
Lampas-lampasan ang indie cinema sa indictment kay Arroyo at sa naghaharing uri at sistema sa bansa. Hindi man ito binabanggit o direktang may referensya sa pelikula, ito, tulad sa panahon ng diktaduryang Marcos, ang organizing signifier sa klase ng pagpapahirap at...
A former presidential adviser under the Ramos administration and senior fellow of the US Institute of Peace expressed concern over the involvement of US troops in the war in Mindanao saying that the Philippines should not even be part of the US so-called “war on terror”.
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