What the media described as an “apology” last Oct. 24 from former Marcos Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile was in the same league as that of Marcos’s daughter Imee’s and son Bongbong’s. But unlike the “apologies” of those two, Enrile’s sounded like an appeal not only to the electorate but also to the judgment of…
Last Tuesday night, human rights lawyer Benjamin Ramos, who assisted the families of the nine farm workers massacred in a Sagay City hacienda on Oct. 20, was gunned down by a tandem of motorcycle-riding men near his home in Kabangkalan City. He was a founding member of the National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL) and…
By RAYMUND VILLANUEVA Kodao Productions A Filipino won one of the most prestigious global awards for journalists for her resistance to “financial, political, economic or religious pressures or because of the values and rules that enable them to resist” in reporting on issues that are sensitive in the Philippines. Cited for her many reports on…
Ni JHIO JHAN NAVARRO Apat na pirasong tanso ang tinanggap niyang kabayaran matapos masugid na ipaglaban karapatan ng mga nasa sakahan Apat na pirasong tanso na di inabot sa kanyang palad bagkus itinarak sa laman dagling ibinaon sa awang katawan Apat na pirasong tanso na putok ang kilingling puot, hinagpis at dalamhati ang ugong at…
The more disturbing issue, however, is the ever-increasing human rights violations and extrajudicial killings of human rights activists who advocate for ordinary people and local communities opposed to large-scale mining operations.