Filipinos join protests against NATO in Chicago, US (Photo by Brett Jelinek / Bulatlat.com)
Day: May 24, 2012
Family questions circumstances surrounding death of OFW in Singapore
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com Manila-The family of a 23-year old overseas Filipino worker (OFW) who fell to her death in Singapore last May 12 is pleading to authorities to help them find justice. The parents of Apple Gamale refuse to accept the explanations of the Singapore police that their daughter jumped from a…
Southern Tagalog human rights situation worsening – Karapatan-ST
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
The Armed Forces of the Philippines claims that it has not committed a single human rights violation during the year, but human rights and people’s organizations, as well as victims and their relatives in Southern Tagalog say it is even getting worse.
In Negros Occidental, children suffer worst blows of rights violations
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com Main Story: Negros farmers suffer atrocities from ‘landlord-hired bandit group’ Sidebar: The peace pact with the RPA–ABB SAGAY CITY, Negros Occidental – Lelia Devera, a resident of E.B. Magalona, brought her five-year-old granddaughter Princess to Bacolod City where they would be relatively safe from the atrocities allegedly being inflicted…
The peace pact with the RPA–ABB
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com Main Story: Negros farmers suffer atrocities from ‘landlord-hired bandit group’ Other Story: In Negros Occidental, children suffer worst blows of rights violations BACOLOD CITY, Negros Occidental –- During the recently concluded fact finding mission, armed men could be seen from afar, guarding the disputed lands of the 24-hectare Hacienda…
Negros farmers suffer atrocities from ‘landlord-hired bandit group’
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
All they want is to own the land that they have been tilling for generations but hacienderos (big landlords) have hired an armed group, which signed a peace pact with the government, to attack them.
Sidebar: The peace pact with the RPA–ABB
In Negros Occidental, children suffer worst blows of rights violations