“Whether they like it or not, the government is responsible for human rights. Not the UN Special Rapporteurs, the civil society. This is the responsibility that they all (States) have signed.”
“There is no other way to describe this violent dispersal as a blatant attack on the LGBTQ+ community and its long history of militant resistance against State repression, especially amid the looming passage of the Anti-Terrorism Bill.” BY AARON MACARAEG Bulatlat.com MANILA– LGBTQIA+ activists and their allies came to celebrate on Thursday, June 26 the…
“The human rights situation in the Philippines has now reached a level of gravity requiring a robust intervention by the UN. The Human Rights Council must do everything in its power to prevent the continuation of widespread and systematic human rights abuses against the Philippines people.”
Ni BOYET DE MESA Naglunsad ng apat na performance solidarity event ang Solidarity in Performance Art Festival (SIPAF) nitong lockdown: #Ekinoks (Marso 20, 2020), #Igpaw: Solidarity in Performance for Health Workers, (Abril 8 ), #MaAyo Uno, Solidarity performance for workers/OFW ) at ang #AnoNewNormal: Performance Solidarity Against Anti-Terror Bill (Hunyo 4). Ang Performance Solidarity ay…
“Worrisome are the expanded and vague definitions of a “terrorist;” the powers given to the Anti-Terror Council to designate a group as a “terrorist group;” the weakening of the protection of one’s privacy and the safeguards against arrests and detention without warrants.”
Kalumbay described Datu Reynaldo Ayuma as being “consistently at the forefront of the struggle of the Camansi evacuees against development aggression of their ancestral domain.”
By DEE AYROSO
“The combination of backwards tradition, capitalist commodification, and class contradiction all help create a culture where women are not only sidelined but are crushed by a vice and deprived of their right to voice out, to quote Alexandra Kollontai. Rape culture and bourgeois society are inherently linked, because both enable a system where a patriarchy,…
By SARI DALENA To the young filmmaker who never met Lino Brocka, Whose thesis films are disrupted by the pandemic, Who cannot attend film festivals, Who are struggling to write scripts in their homes, Who are streaming movies at 2 in the morning Whose film grant cannot be released Who cannot do an internship Whose…
Ni Ricky Gomez Itong si Edgardo Palagi na lang oo Sa utos ni Dino Na tuta ni Rodrigo Isa pa to’ng si Año Mando lang ng mando Quarantine pass kanselado Ano naman kaya ang maitutulong ni Cimatu? Ang mga Sugbuanon Ang sinisisi ng mga tonto Mga matitigas ang ulo! Ayaw ninyong makinig! Kampante kayong…
“With the fast-tracking of the bill, graver human rights violations among IPs and farmers are expected, especially for groups who are known for their valiant opposition of destructive projects like Chico River dams back in the ‘70s. For so long, Cordillera has been treated as a resource base for investments and we have been politically…