By RAYMUND B. VILLANUEVA Kodao Productions GENEVA, Switzerland—A team of Filipino rights defe9nders here are preparing for another busy week calling for investigations by the United Nations (UN) on the state of human rights in the Philippines. With three oral interventions one after the other last Friday, March 6, and another last Monday, March 2,…
Day: March 9, 2020
The multiple burdens of being a Moro woman sidewalk vendor
“The fear of getting caught and arrested during clearing operations has always been there. I have always felt the discrimination, not just because I am a Muslim woman, but because I am poor and without a decent job.”
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Ni ARTHUR DAVID SAN JUAN Ilang taon din ang iyong binuno: unahan ang tilaok sa dilim upang maagang isaayos ang mga kasangkapan sa kusina. Madalas, sa kakulangan ng sibuyas na isinasahog sa itlog, bubudburan mo ng iyong mga luha ang kaning tutong; himutok ng mga gabing pinalilipas ang gutom. Ikinakasal ang hapdi ng kalamnan sa…