Human rights defenders and environmental advocates are up in arms over what they referred to as a “grand show of hypocrisy” as Ferdinand Marcos Jr. addressed the United Nations’ General Assembly.
Month: September 2022
4 arrested while fishing in Laguna de Bay
They were reportedly fined P2,500 ($43) each over a supposed offense that, according to Pamalakaya, the maritime police based in Taguig City was “unable to identify.”
Rights groups urge UN to strengthen monitoring of human rights situation in PH
“At this stage, discontinuing the only scheduled debate on the country at the HRC will risk acquiescing (to) ongoing abuses and violations and will abandon tens of thousands of victims who deserve justice and accountability.”
Marcos urged to raise concerns vs Chinese incursions on UN Assembly
“[Marcos] should garner support from the international community in pressuring China to comply with the international ruling and abandon their irrational claim over our waters.”
Groups denounce harassment vs red-tagged Panay peasant leader
“For decades, Nay Lucia has been sharing her wide array of skills in sustainable organic farming by training farmers across the country both in the technical and advocacy and lobbying aspect of sustainable organic agriculture.”
CA reverses guilty verdict against labor leader
The CA said the firearms and live ammunition allegedly recovered therefrom constitutes inadmissible evidence in accordance to the exclusionary clause stated in the 1987 Constitution “for being the proverbial fruit of the poisonous tree.”
Slicing through the new president’s first budget proposal
Fast-forward to today, as the proposed 2023 national budget is being railroaded in Congress, the new administration’s priorities are now getting clear. What’s in it for the people? Not much, apparently.
Privatization, Philippine-style | Residents pay higher for dirty water
Given how political and business interests have aligned themselves with the current administration, it is uncertain how long proverbial faucets will have to be left running to reach clarity on the issue of water privatization.
Artists pay tribute to the late poet Richard Gappi
Isang premyadong makata, mamamahayag, at manggagawang pangkultura, inialay ni Richard Regadillo Gappi (1971-2022) ang kaniyang sining sa pagsisilbi sa bayan. Naging masugid na kontributor ng bulatlat.com si Gappi, kilala rin sa palayaw na “Insad.”
Case of persecution in Canada? | Filipino migrant rights leader faces deportation
The story of Danilo de Leon’s journey of leaving behind his family in the Philippines to work abroad is perhaps the story of most Filipino migrant workers, especially parents. He did so, after all, to provide a better future for his two children.
Ailing dev’t worker arrested in Roxas City
The 45-year-old activist, along with Gabriela-Roxas City’s secretary general Marivie Bartolome Arguelles and another individual, was named in a search warrant used by the members of the police to raid their shelter house for women located at Happy Homes Subdivision, Barangay Sibaguan, Roxas City.