By RONALYN V. OLEA
Casiano Abing is the sixth activist killed since President Benigno S. Aquino III assumed power. Human rights lawyer Katrina Castillo deems the killing a result of the extension of counterinsurgency program Oplan Bantay Laya.
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By ALDWIN QUITASOL NORTHERN DISPATCH Posted By: Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY — With the continuing entry of mining corporations in Benguet, the Benguet Mining Action Alert Network (BMAAN) vowed to further safeguard their homeland against development aggression projects. The BMAAN is composed of indigenous peoples, peasants, church workers, industrial workers, officials from the local government units…
By KIMBERLIE OLMAYA NGABIT-QUITASOL NORTHERN DISPATCH Posted By: Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY – In its effort to correct prevailing misconceptions and misrepresentations of indigenous peoples (IPs), the Program for Indigenous Cultures (PIC-USC) of the University of the Philippines (UP) Baguio hosted a forum with the theme “Re-presenting the Indigenous in Media.” Wilfredo V. Alangui, PIC Chairman…
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com The designation of two cabinet secretaries to oversee the communication operations of the Aquino administration seems to be the result of Mr. Aquino’s attempt to accommodate, appease, calm, or whatever, the factions to which former broadcaster Ricky Carandang and former Transportation undersecretary Herminio Coloma…
By GEORGE MONBIOT Alternet International Posted by Bulatlat.com How did the globe’s biggest environmental problem because simply an issue of politics? It was Australia’s second climate change election. Climate change deposed the former leaders of both main parties: Kevin Rudd (Labor) because his position was too weak, Malcolm Turnbull (Liberals) because his position was too…
By DAVID BACON Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat.com Early in the morning of July 21, police stormed the offices of the Iraqi Electrical Utility Workers Union in Basra, the poverty-stricken capital of Iraq’s oil-rich south. A shamefaced officer told Hashmeya Muhsin, the first woman to head a national union in Iraq, that they’d come to…
Main story: Court Orders Hospital Detention for Morong 43 Mom, Newborn By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA–Breastfeeding advocates and children’s rights NGOs found the court decision allowing the hospital detention of Morong 43 mother and her newborn to be wanting. Carina Judilyn Oliveros, one of the 43 health workers arrested on Feb. 6 in Morong,…
By RONALYN V. OLEA
After initially denying the petition for temporary release of Morong 43 mother Carina Judilyn Oliveros, the court, in deciding on the appeal filed by Oliveros’s counsel, ordered her and her son’s transfer to a hospital where she would be detained for a period of three months.
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