By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com Human rights is a very important issue for us in Bulatlat. We have written about the life of each and every victim of human rights violations. We tried to provide the context by which these violations are being committed by describing the life and struggles of the victims, the organizations they…
Day: December 8, 2012
DENR hand in degrading environment, human rights as dirty as the military’s – IP and green groups
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA — The Aquino government alternately blames the devastating landslide in Compostela Valley on illegal logging and small-scale miners. But illegal logging operations would not prosper without the connivance of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Rolando Florencio, chairman of Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas in the province of Compostela…
Mindanao lumad, green groups blame Aquino’s mining policies for devastation wreaked by typhoon Pablo
By MARYA SALAMAT
Progressive groups in Mindanao describe the devastation caused by typhoon Pablo as “an environmental apocalypse not simply caused by nature’s wrath but by the Aquino government continuing puppetry to foreign mining interests and the government’s greed and corruption in general.”
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Widows of the war against peoples and communities
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO and SIDLANGAN NATIVIDAD
They could have been paralyzed by depression and fear after losing their husbands suddenly and violently. But they chose to trek the dangerous road of the struggle for justice and for the defense of their land, livelihood and life.
Activist’s widow Rosalie Cabal vows to continue the fight for justice
“I am braver and stronger now that he is gone. Many people trusted him so I have to fight for justice to be served.” By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – From the very beginning, Rosalie Cabal, 42, understood why her husband Margarito fought, until his last breath, against the proposed construction of a…
Sharon Liguyon, realizing the need to fight for their land
Sharon found it unfortunate that it was only after her husband’s death she realized the value of fighting for their ancestral domain against mining companies and their hired mercenaries. By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Sharon Liguyon, 36, would never forget how she fervently tried to convince her husband Jimmy to sign his…
Daisy Paborada, taking on the fight from where her husband fell
By SIDLANGAN NATIVIDAD Bulatlat.com MANILA – Daisy Paborada, a farmer, 41, and her late spouse had once ploughed their share of the 520-hectare ancestral domain along with the rest of the Higaonon tribe. Since 2003, the Paborada family had enjoyed their simple and peaceful life. In February 2011, A. Brown Palm Company, Inc. seized the…