Jueteng operations in Baguio City allegedly hiding under the cloak of legalized bingo met a big stumbling block last week when Cordillera policemen simultaneously raided “gambling dens” including a barangay (village) hall. BY ACE ALEGRE Contributed to Bulatlat...
On Dec. 11 stopthekillings.be, a coalition of 65 trade union organizations, NGOs and political parties, held a torch vigil in front of the Philippine embassy in Brussels at the occasion of international human rights day. They commemorated the victims of political...
The pain of the forced disappearance of her parents is still fresh but she manages to be strong for her brother. This Christmas will be a sad and hard one for Malaya Intise and her brother Bayan, but she still has hope that she will find their parents soon. BY...
Members of the Canadian Human Rights Fact-Finding Mission to the Philippines marked the celebration of the International Human Rights Day by joining gatherings of various community organizations in forums that took the Canadian government to task for “paying lip...
Editors’ Note: For four days from Nov. 16-20 this year, Ted Alcuitas, a Filipino-Canadian journalist, traveled to the Central Luzon provinces of Nueva Ecija and Bulacan as part of a nine-member Canadian fact-finding mission to investigate the human rights situation...
“And UP will have really lost its character, and soul, as a State University,” said Faculty Regent Roland Simbulan in his dissenting vote to the tuition increase. And lost it did. BY REYNA MAE TABBADA Bulatlat “And UP will have really lost its character, and soul,...
(Last of two parts) President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo claims that growing investments in the industrial enclaves will provide employment and uplift workers’ conditions, but this is belied by union leaders. BY FRED VILLAREAL Gitnang Luson News Service Posted by...
(First of two parts) This Christmas season, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo paints a rosy picture for workers especially in so-called “industrial enclaves” such as the Clark Special Economic Zone (CSEZ) in Pampanga and the Subic Bay Free Port Economic Zone...
For couple Librado and Martina Gallardo of Pantabangan, Nueva Ecija, the torture and the threats inflicted on them by soldiers of the 48th Infantry Battalion were so brutal they chose to commit suicide. Even the dead couple’s son, Jason, was beaten so bad for...
NI JESSA MEI JAMILA Inilathala ng Gusto ko po sanang magbigay ng aking opinyon tungol sa nakaraang usaping hinggil sa Hacienda Luisita. Ang aming guro po sa Araling Panlipunan ay pinapanood kami ng isang dokumentaryong talagang nagpabuhay sa nag-aalab kong dugo at...
Citing the danger of a repressive regime using an Anti-Terror Bill to create a shadow criminal justice system which, in turn, will be used as an instrument of a greater terror perpetrated by people in power against their critics and political opponents, Sen. Jamby...
Out of studies on the Roman Empire in the New Testament especially the Book of Revelation, I follow a thesis that the United States of America has become today’s New Roman Empire. BY BP. ERME R. CAMBA United Church of Christ in the Philippines Posted by...
Around 350 Filipino-Americans met in Queens, New York over the weekend for a two-day national conference and to form a national alliance that would address the various issues affecting the Filipino-American community. The new alliance agreed to address issues...
Canada is one of the preferred countries of destination for Filipinos aiming to work and live abroad. But life for migrant workers and overseas Filipinos is not all that rosy in the “Land of the Free,” a motto coined and patented by Canada. BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN...
To commemorate the 58th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, human rights groups held a mobilization Dec. 8 to call for justice for the victims of political killings and enforced disappearances under the Arroyo regime, as well as...
BY BULATLAT Philippine immigration authorities denied the travel rights of an American human rights lawyer by deporting him immediately back to the United States upon arrival at the international on Dec. 6. A news dispatch sent from Washington, DC by Rachel Lovis...
Of all human rights, it is the right to life which is most violated in the Cordillera region. This is what is shown by figures from the Cordillera Human Rights Alliance (CHRA). BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat BAGUIO CITY – Of all human...
Accused of alleged connections with the Abu Sayyaf Group, 130 Moros have spent five years at a military camp south of Manila and Moro advocates and interfaith groups are calling for justice. By Bulatlat Moro detainees and advocates from the Muslim and Christian...
BY CHERYL DAYTEC-YAÑGOT Posted by Bulatlat.com We were born rich in an abundant land. Then they saw us and all of a sudden We were invisible. They did not see us When they came to vandalize the burial grounds of our ancestors to herald the fabrication of...
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