By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MALOLOS, Bulacan – The lawyers of soldiers tagged in the abduction of University of the Philippines (UP) students Karen Empeño and Sherlyn Cadapan cross examined one of the vital witnesses in a hearing, October 29. Jose M. Cruz, lawyer of Staff Sgt. Edgar Osorio, and Abner M. Torres, lawyer of…
Day: October 30, 2012
Rights worker in Visayas harassed by suspected military agents
By RITCHE T. SALGADO
President Benigno Aquino III’s excuse that cases of human rights violations being brought before it are mere “leftist propaganda’ is not only lame, it is dangerous as threats against human rights defenders intensify.
Anti-mining, anti-illegal logging activist survives ambush
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Dr. Isidro Olan, executive director of Lovers of Nature Foundation, alighted from his vehicle because logs were blocking the road; when he did, the would-be-assassins fired at him hitting him on the right shoulder.
Politicians, military blamed for Tampakan massacre
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
The military claims that the massacre of Juvy Capion and her two children Jordan, 13, and Janjan, 8, was a ‘legitimate encounter.’ Now, they have taken one of the survivors, four-year-old Becky.
After LTO’s ’illegal money-making scheme,’ here comes another?
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – The government’s transport offices have not yet begun to abide by a court’s decision to stop implementing its “illegal and excessive money-making scheme,” they have come up with another plan that, critics from transport groups said, has the same money-making goal. Transport group Piston criticized as another ”money-making scheme”…
Child rights violations under Aquino government increasing
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
The month of October was declared as National Children’s Month, but still the rights of majority of Filipino children are being trampled upon due to poverty, lack of access to basic social services, and child labor, and the alarming increase in cases of rape, sexual assault, harassment, being made as human shields in military operations or paraded as ‘child soldiers,’ and killings.
Sidebar: Child rights groups slam military for attacks on children
Child rights groups slam military for attacks on children
Main story: Child rights violations under Aquino government increasing By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Children are not spared from rights violations. Under the administration of President Benigno S. Aquino III, the Children’s Rehabilitation Center (CRC) has recorded 14 cases of killing of children. A more recent case happened last Oct. 19 in…