BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat Government critics from various political persuasions have condemned the arrest this afternoon of National Broadband Network (NBN) star witness Rodolfo "Jun" Lozada. Lozada was arrested in connection with the July 4, 2008...
BY RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat The Philippine government's second periodic report to the United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT) was 'bombarded' with questions, human rights network Philippine UPR Watch said. The 27-member Philippine government delegation,...
BY ANNA KRISTINA P. VIRTUSIO Bulatlat The resolution opposing the appointment of retired Gen. Jovito Palparan S. Jr. to any government post is back to square one. The House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability has referred House Resolution No. 999...
Kin, Friends Mark 2nd Year of Jonas Abduction
Republic of the Philippines HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL Quezon City DR. REYNALDO LESACA, JR., CRISTINA PALABAY, RENATO M. REYES, JR., ERLINDA CADAPAN, ANTONIO FLORES, JOSELITO USTAREZ Petitioners, HRET CASE NO. ________ - versus - FOR: Quo Warranto...
BY CHARMAINE P. LIRIO Bulatlat Leaders of progressive party-list groups and families of victims of extra-judicial killings filed today a petition for quo warranto before the House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal (HRET), seeking to disqualify Retired Major...
Victims of torture under the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo administration traveled all the way to Geneva, Switzerland to tell their stories of torture during the 42nd Session of the United Nations Committee Against Torture (UNCAT).
BY JUAN ANGELO A. HONGO AND MARIANNE B. MIRAMBEL Bulatlat To mark the second year anniversary of his abduction, family members, friends and supporters of activist Jonas Burgos gathered today in a mass at Camp Agunaldo’s Gate 1. Jonas, son of the late press freedom...
BY RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat Three activists have joined the progressive party-list bloc in Congress as they took their oath this morning before Supreme Court Justice Antonio Carpio. By virtue of the recent Supreme Court decision on the party-list system, lawyer...
BY RONALYN OLEA Bulatlat Activists and supporters have wielded the cyberspace in their campaign against retired Major Gen. Jovito Palparan Jr. As of 10:13 pm on April 26, 2009, more than 1,000 people on the popular social networking site Facebook have joined the...
Artists Converge at Anti-VFA Cultural Night
Ang posibilidad ng mobilidad ay nananatili. Naagnas din tulad ng tinta at kapabayaan. Rumurupok ang frame at ang pako sa dingding. Nahuhulog, nababasag ang salamin, kundi man kumukulot ang kahoy na pinanglaminate dito, dumidilaw ang papel hanggang di na mabasa...
The Anti-Violence against Women and Children Act or Republic 9262 of 2004 was passed “to protect the family and its members particularly women and children from violence and threats to their personal safety and security”. The intention of the law is to guarantee full respect for human rights of women and children. Five years since it was passed, the women’s group GABRIELA has been receiving an increasing number of reports of violence and threats against women and children.
Newly released US government documents, detailing how Bush administration officials punched legalistic holes in the Geneva Conventions' protections of war captives, stand in stark contrast to the outrage some of the same officials expressed in the first week of the...
Nelson Ebreo left the Philippines late last year to work as a tile setter in Qatar, seeking to provide a good future for his three children, the eldest of whom is still in Grade III, and his wife. However, after months of receiving nothing from his employer, he...
Forming an unassuming picture of the less familiar side of Manila, Brillante Mendoza’s Tirador showed how it feels to live in the slum area that is Quiapo. BY JUAN ANGELO A. HONGO CULTURE Bulatlat Forming an unassuming picture of the less familiar side of Manila,...
A meditation on Recci Bacolor’s Resureccion My Little Art Space, Greenhills, San Juan; March 29-April 15, 2009 Group Exhibit Sometimes, the artist has to be reborn or awakened from his or her tight sleep in order to unleash the power of his or her art. BY NOEL...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat For L/Cpl. Daniel Smith, convicted rapist of “Nicole”, after his acquittal by the Court of Appeals You should be thankful that this country, which you visited as a uniformed bearer of the Stars and Stripes, has a government...
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