By DEE AYROSO
Localized
Month: June 2019
Kin of victims of ‘drug war’ urge UN to probe cases in PH
“UNHRC, you are welcome here!“
Scant gov’t response to climate change hitting farmers the hardest
Farmers’ harvests this year are disappointingly smaller than before – not just in amount but in size also of the grains itself.
66 killed under Duterte, advocates call for defense of human rights in Negros
Under the Duterte administration, 66 farmers and activists have already been gunned down.
Outrage, shame and accountability
For almost two weeks now, the midnight “maritime incident” near Recto Bank in the West Philippine Sea has exercised to a considerable degree the Filipinos’ collective sense of outrage, then of outrage combined with disappointment, frustration, and shame. And their basic demand for accountability for the incident and its consequences calls for prompt and appropriate…
In his own words
Had it not been for that “incident” near the Recto Bank in the West Philippine Sea, the 121st anniversary of Philippine independence would have come and gone like any other holiday whose significance escapes many Filipinos. Only three days earlier, on June 9, a Chinese militia vessel rammed and sank a Filipino fishing boat, and…
Spot the difference
By DEE AYROSO
Urban poor resident suffers miscarriage due to demolition threats
“They thrive on generating fear within the community only to make way for their multi-billion endeavor. It shows how those in power, public and private sector, put a premium on profits while neglecting the fact that the residents have a legitimate basis for staying and then punishing them for it. Even if it costs the life of someone as innocent as an unborn child.”
Betrayed
How could he muster the courage to continue speaking the truth against the mighty China when the betrayal came from the country’s highest seat of power?
Dirty tricks
By DEE AYROSO
Academic unfreedom and states of repression: On the case of Leloy Claudio
Dr. Claudio’s commentary, accusing his colleagues as well as students and activists of being “commies” are hardly statements to be glibly made or easily dismissed. Within the context of increasing state repression and concomitantly the erosion of academic freedom on both sides of the Pacific, the targets of Dr. Claudio’s work are put directly into the crosshairs of the Duterte and even the Trump regime. Dr. Claudio produces conditions of academic unfreedom for those he attacks.