Central Luzon region is attracting mining investors, with its rich deposits of asphalt, basalt, gold, silver, copper and zinc. Indigenous peoples, however, say the mining explorations are driving them out of their ancestral lands. BY JHONG DELA CRUZ Bulatlat.com...
Bulatlat.com We church leaders, gathered here in Manila, July 12-16, 2006, represent churches throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, and North America. We have been gathered here in prayer and for critical reflection on the way military,...
Extra-judicial killings: 145 a year under GMA, 120 a year under FM Based on data from Karapatan (Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights), the number of victims of extra-judicial killings has reached 725 since 2001, when Arroyo became president through a...
By Flon Faurillo Bulatlat.com Involuntary disappearances, one of the cruelest forms of human rights violations, are becoming a cause for concern under the Arroyo administration. Even the Supreme Court has taken up the issue, in a number of cases ordering the...
Let us zero in specifically on the question of violations of civil and political rights under Mrs. Arroyo's watch. Why is it that we know that this government is not to be believed when it says it will stop political killings? BY CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO...
OFWs, many of them women, are fleeing strife-ridden Mindanao to look for jobs in war-torn Middle East. For salaries that hardly uplift their lives at home, is government exporting OFWs abroad only to be in harm’s way again? BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN Bulatlat.com The...
Bulatlat.com On April 28, 2006, the writer Axel Alejandro Pinpin and four companions were abducted in Sungay village, Tagaytay City, by the Philippine National Police and charged with rebellion. Pinpin's companions, researchers Aristedes Sarmiento and Riel...
The good news is that all regional wage boards in the country have granted wage increases. This obviously means that private sector workers nationwide are now entitled to higher wages. The bad news, however, is that the increase in wages is not enough to offset the...
BY SHAWN GARCIA Party for Socialism and Liberation Bulatlat.com The World Trade Organization Doha Development Agenda was suspended on July 24, 2006. The decision to halt the "Doha Round" of trade talks came after the major imperialist powers—the United States and...
Photo by Voltaire Domingo/ NPPA Images Bulatlat.com This is not a terrorist plot, but merely a process by which used liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tanks are cleared of gas residues prior to reconditioning. A worker in a LPG factory in Valenzuela City puts a used...
Some 138 janitors fired by the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman campus are protesting their retrenchment. Some of them have worked in UP for as long as 16 years. BY EMILY VITAL Bulatlat.com Those who used to clean up the mess are now protesting how they...
“Until sufficient jobs can be created, overseas workers will have to continue risking physical and psychological abuse, and even death, in order to feed their families and ensure them a decent life.” By Aubrey SC Makilan Bulatlat.com As the poorest island in the...
Second of three parts The deliberate use of terror is “a legitimate and highly effective tactical tool of unconventional warfare.” This unconventional warfare is designated as a “national policy” with the military assigned the primary responsibility in “the conduct...
Constancio “Chandu” Claver, a doctor in Kalinga for the past 25 years, accused the government and the military of masterminding the attack that killed his wife, Alice, and traumatized his seven-year-old daughter Cassandra. “We believe that the killers of my wife...
Constancio “Chandu” Claver, a doctor in Kalinga for the past 25 years, accused the government and the military of masterminding the attack that killed his wife, Alice, and traumatized his seven-year-old daughter Cassandra. “We believe that the killers of my wife...
BY AUBREY MAKILAN| Bulatlat.com A year after killing the first impeachment complaint, the House of Representative justice committee again dismissed the second impeachment rap against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for insufficiency in substance. Before the...
BY EMILY VITAL Bulatlat.com Citizen complainants and leaders of various people’s organizations opposed efforts of pro-Arroyo legislators to kill the impeachment bid against Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. In a press conference this morning, Dr. Carol Araullo,...
By Flon Faurillo Bulatlat.com President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo have grand promises of bringing the country to the Enchanted Kingdom of economic development, creating “super-regions” and training “supermaids”, even as majority of the people are faced with...
BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY – A criminal case of obstruction of justice was recently filed by professional nurses in this city against Philippine Nursing Association President Dr. Cordero for his alleged efforts to cover up the...
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