Salungguhit: Unarmed?
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Bulatlat Staff | Jan 14, 2013
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Rizana Nafeek: another victim of Saudi Arabia’s ‘flawed’ justice system
Rizana Nafeek: another victim of Saudi Arabia’s ‘flawed’ justice system
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Human rights advocates all over the world expressed dismay and outrage over January 9 reports that Saudi Arabia has beheaded Rizana Nafeek, the Sri Lankan domestic worker who was wrongly accused of killing a baby...
Kin of Filipinos killed in US oil rig explosion campaign against company
Kin of Filipinos killed in US oil rig explosion campaign against company
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
A class action suit filed by over 70 Filipino workers was initiated, even prior to the explosion, against the Grand Isle Shipyard for discrimination, labor trafficking, slavery and forced servitude, and fraud.
Aquino’s favorite whipping boys in 2012, government employees
Aquino’s favorite whipping boys in 2012, government employees
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – During President Benigno “Noynoy” C. Aquino III’s 2012 State of the Nation Address, he announced, as good news, the Performance-based Incentive system for government employees. However, this bit of good news drove...
Crackdown on political activists feared as 28 nabbed in 1 month
Crackdown on political activists feared as 28 nabbed in 1 month
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Those arrested were charged with cases in relation to New People’s Army ambuscades, which occurred in areas where they have never even set foot on. Is this part of another crackdown on political activists, this time by the Aquino administration?
Online, offline protests vs Cybercrime Law resume
Online, offline protests vs Cybercrime Law resume
By RONALYN V. OLEA
As both petitioners and the Office of the Solicitor General prepare for the Supreme Court hearings on the Cybercrime Prevention Act, netizens and various groups began their protest actions once more to make sure that their voices are heard.
Mr. President, education is a human right, not a product
Mr. President, education is a human right, not a product
By Bill Ayers Truthout.org The landscape of “educational reform” is currently littered with rubble and ruin and wreckage on all sides. Sadly, your administration has contributed significantly to the mounting catastrophe. You’re not alone: The toxic materials have...
Birds, bees and bad information: The deplorable state of sex education in the US
Birds, bees and bad information: The deplorable state of sex education in the US
By ELEANOR J. BADER Truthout.org Although we know what works and what doesn't in sexual education, the US fails its young adults and their families, providing inadequate, inconsistent, medically inaccurate and socially biased information. Depending on where a child...
Required reading
Required reading
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld THE DOJ (Department of Justice) “Primer on Cybercrime” should be required reading for anyone who’s ever had any doubts about the Aquino administration’s support for the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 (RA10175)....
Gov’t lacks political will to go after the Marcoses
Gov’t lacks political will to go after the Marcoses
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star One can understand Andres Bautista’s deep frustration in wanting to abolish the Presidential Commission on Good Government, which he has headed since October 2010, although — or because — it has failed to...
Phaseout of older AUV not for cleaner air but for profits?
Phaseout of older AUV not for cleaner air but for profits?
By MARYA SALAMAT
“No driver in his or her right mind would turn down a new vehicle unit if it were affordable. But the government has no program to help them avail of vehicles that would pass the government’s supposed environmental requirements.” – George San Mateo, Piston Party-list
‘Super body’ on killings convenes; rights groups not pleased
‘Super body’ on killings convenes; rights groups not pleased
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“The super body’s definition [of extrajudicial killings] is strained and will blur and smokescreen extrajudicial killings, skirt impunity issues and even make scapegoats with the body’s distractive and confused ostensible functions.” – National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers
State of press freedom: Attacks and threats in 2012
State of press freedom: Attacks and threats in 2012
By MELANIE PINLAC Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility The failure of the Benigno Aquino III administration to stop the killing of journalists and to speed up the prosecution of cases in court has disappointed journalists, press freedom defenders—and those...
‘Lawmakers, people like me should follow Ka Bel’s example’ – Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim
‘Lawmakers, people like me should follow Ka Bel’s example’ – Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim
'Lawmakers, people like me should follow Ka Bel’s example' – Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim (Photo by Marya Salamat / Bulatlat.com)
Release of P140 million pork barrel fund for Akbayan representative slammed
Release of P140 million pork barrel fund for Akbayan representative slammed
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Last year the currently incumbent partylist Akbayan came under fire from critics. With Akbayan leaders enjoying key appointive positions in the Aquino cabinet and its partylist receiving or taking care of millions of...
The costs of the Aquino government’s K to 12 program
The costs of the Aquino government’s K to 12 program
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Being touted as the main education reform program of the Aquino government, the K to 12 program is already in its second phase of implementation. How did it impact on the country’s deteriorating public school system?...
Now you see them, now you don’t, but G.I. Joes are here to stay, no thanks to the Aquino government
Now you see them, now you don’t, but G.I. Joes are here to stay, no thanks to the Aquino government
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Tensions at the West Philippine Sea have been hitting the headlines since last year. President Benigno Aquino III has been blowing hot and cold over the issue: at times saber-rattling, begging the US to deploy more troops and...
On Aquino’s mid-term, tillers in Luisita, elsewhere still landless
On Aquino’s mid-term, tillers in Luisita, elsewhere still landless
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The year 2012 would have been joyous for the farmers of Hacienda Luisita, the vast sugar plantation controlled by President Benigno Aquino III’s family for nearly five decades. Aquino himself, during the campaign period in...
Political prisoner Alan Jazmines visits mother’s wake
Political prisoner Alan Jazmines visits mother’s wake
Political prisoner Alan Jazmines visits mother’s wake (Photo by Pom Cahilog-Villanueva / Bulatlat.com)
Health for sale
Health for sale
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL and BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com MANILA –When the Aquino administration took over the reins of government, the public health system was festering and the poor’s access to essential health services has been getting worse. Ibon Foundation’s...
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