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Frustrated with the lack of government measures to address the problem of killings and other rights abuses, lawyers’ groups resolved to seek the help of the United Nations to curb the continuing attacks against Filipino lawyers and judges. BY RONALYN V. OLEA HUMAN...
One of the lawyers of the 72 activists charged with murder in relation to an ambush incident in Mindoro Oriental said the accusations are baseless. BY RONALYN V. OLEA HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Bulatlat One of the lawyers of the 72 activists charged with murder in relation...
EARLY BIRD. . Long before joining and winning the reality television show Celebrity Duets, Metro Manila Development Authority chairperson Bayani Fernando appears to be campaigning already. (Photo by EDNA CAHILOG-VILLANUEVA)
Lawyers from various Asian countries added their voices to the call for the government to surface James Balao in a conference held at the Club John Hay in Baguio City. BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat BAGUIO CITY (246...
Where Now for the Abusive AFP? To honor its electoral promises, the incoming US administration must confront the AFP, along with other agents of repression which have operated with impunity during the Bush years. Alston’s condemnation of that impunity was...
Rather than bringing life, the teeming “gold rush” in the mining town of Itogon in Benguet has instead brought danger. BY ACE ALEGRE Contributor Bulatlat Itogon, Benguet (197 kms north of Manila)– Rather than bringing life, the teeming “gold rush” in the mining...
Leaders of the world's 20 biggest economies will confront dueling demands for action when they gather here Saturday in the highest-level acknowledgement so far that the global economy is in crisis. The most spectacular and damaging financial crisis in more than...
Each week brings a terrifying lurch, like a house on the edge of some cliff being pounded into slush by a Pacific storm. On the Doppler radar, we can see financial storm after financial storm lined up out there. Next to burst: the credit card overhang, of some $2.8...
Press reports say Barack Obama may retain George W. Bush's Defense Secretary Robert Gates as a gesture to war-time continuity, bipartisanship and respect for the Washington insider community, which has embraced Gates as something of a new Wise Man. However, if...
NI VIJAE ALQUISOLA Inilathala ng Bulatlat Maaga mong natuklasan Na kinakailangang itigil Ang ikinabubuhay Upang mas ganap na mabuhay. Sa edad sampu, batid mo’ng Nasa may P A A N A N Ng lipunang hugis Mayon Ang iyong talampakan, Ang inyong talampakan. Karugtong ng...
BY PROF. JOSE MARIA SISON NDFP Chief Political Consultant DEMOCRATIC SPACE Gloria M. Arroyo through her executive secretary Eduardo Ermita has bitterly attacked the joint statement of Senator M. A. Madrigal, chairperson of the Senate Committee on Peace, Unification...
The American people may have had a much longer experience with democracy, and they have reason to take pride in having fought for and achieved this. But US elections, as with its other democratic processes, are no less free from manipulation and control of the...
From the looks of it, it seems that former Agriculture Undersecretary Jocelyn “Joc Joc” Bolante is doing a Garci and a Neri, thus, adding the fertilizer scam to the list of issues that would hound the Arroyo government beyond 2010. BY BENJIE OLIVEROS ANALYSIS...
Migrante International criticized Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for disregarding reports that three OFWs in death row for the killing of three other Filipinos were tortured into confessing to the crime. Her appeal for the commutation of the sentence of the three to...
A group of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) called for the scrapping of the sample contract being promoted by Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) for OFWs. BY BULATLAT MIGRANT WATCH Bulatlat A group of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) called for...
Review of Rights v. 2, a collection of public service announcements on human rights Initiated by Southern Tagalog Exposure Featuring various artists Rights v. 2 begins and ends on a defiant note – as if telling the viewer that what is needed amid escalating attacks...
Ang kasinungalingan ng estadong Arroyo ay patotoo sa mapanupil na imperialismong US. Ginagawang katanggap-tanggap ang pagmamangmang sa mamamayan. Ang kasinungalingan ay iniwawasto ng progresibong kilusan, inilalatag ang maskara ng paghuhunghang. Ang kasinungalingan...
BY BULATLAT Filipino-Americans in the United States called President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s prayer for peace a sham. Arroyo attended the interfaith forum of the United Nations in New York. In a statement sent through email, the US chapter of Bagong Alyansang...
BY BULATLAT Another activist was arrested by elements of the Philippine National Police (PNP) in Calamba City, according to the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan-New Patriotic Alliance) in Southern Tagalog. Emmanuel Dionida, executive director of labor institute...
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