By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
After giving a testimony regarding his abduction and torture by the military, the victim, after a few days, disappeared again only to resurface later to file a case against the NPA and a human rights group that assisted him.
Day: June 23, 2012
Green economy and the road to Rio
The proposed ‘Road to Rio’ still looks at nature, people and their products as capital that must be used in the most efficient manner for profit accumulation By ROSARIO BELLA GUZMAN IBON Features / Bulatlat.com IBON Features — Hundreds of heads of states are expected to attend the Earth Summit on June 20 to 22,…
New PUP president urged to regularize striking janitors
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) called on the newly-installed president of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines to heed the demand of at least 180 striking contractual janitors for reinstatement. PUP president Emmanuel de Guzman assumed office amid a labor dispute in the university’s Sta. Mesa campus. The…
Run ‘hounds’ Palparan
Run ‘hounds’ Palparan (Photo by Fred Dabu / Bulatlat.com)
Cases of mysterious deaths of OFWs mount
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Migrante-Middle East said they receive reports of OFWs who died under questionable and vague circumstances on an average of two cases every month.
Cashing in on the environment
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com Although the environment gradually became an international concern since the early 70s, the Earth Summit 20 years ago signaled that the world is already alarmed over the state of the environment. This was followed by the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, in which countries committed to reduce their greenhouse gases emissions by…
Street Shooter: Crenellations
Curious citizens look through slots between Korean characters that spell revolutionary slogans. (Such slogans abound Pyongyang Streets.) Not unlike archers peering through battlements in medieval Europe. DPRK is still in a state of war against South Korea and the United States of America. (Pyongyang, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea)