By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com Pundits, activists and civil libertarians alike are still speculating on what actually led to last week’s order by President Aquino, auspiciously announced on Human Rights Day, for the Justice Department to withdraw all charges against the Morong 43, a move expected to lead to the court’s…
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Luis V. Teodoro | Clear and Present Danger
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com December 17th, 2010 WE CAN all sleep soundly each night in the certainty that the Armed Forces of the Philippines is on guard and watching over us. Regardless of such technicalities as due process and human rights, it is at this very moment protecting…
Ilocos Groups Decry ‘Continuing Injustice’
By JOAN GARCIA Bulatlat.com CANDON, Ilocos Sur — It was hot on the morning of December 10 as protesters marched in the streets to commemorate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). More than 250 protesters, mostly farmers, came from different provinces of the region to challenge President Benigno S. Aquino III to protect and…
Ilocos Groups Strengthen Commitment to Fight for Their Rights
By JOAN GARCIA Bulatlat.com CANDON, Ilocos Sur — The 3rd Regional Assembly of the Ilocos Human Rights Alliance (IHRA-Karapatan) paved the way for the different sectors of the region to unite and strengthen their resolve in fighting for their rights. For the people of Ilocos, especially for the farmers and fisher folks, life is tougher…
Local Youth Artists Unite for Human Rights
By JOAN GARCIA Bulatlat.com LAOAG CITY, Ilocos Norte–One would not normally hear the blaring guitars and growling of heavy metal bands coincide with that of the beats of the tongatongand the soft chants of a salidummay. However, on December 11, youth artists from Ilocos Norte came together with the Salidummay of the Dap-ayan ti Kultura…
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Harvest Time
Salungguhit: A Most Welcome Change
A Most Welcome Change
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Looking Forward: The GRP-NDFP Peace Talks
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com Contrary to skeptics’ views, there are objective conditions that auger positively for the upcoming resumption of formal peace talks between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), the revolutionary alliance that includes the Communist Party…
Luis V. Teodoro | Two Elections
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com Elections this November took place in two countries that are geographically far apart, and have practically nothing in common. But the results were in both cases as expected, although due to widely different reasons. In the case of the national elections — the first…
CenPEG | SC Ruling on the Truth Commission: A Dead-end?
By taking the slower tack of forming a truth body, the pursuit of accountability with respect to the crimes of graft and corruption linking the previous regime has been entrusted to the constraints and weaknesses of the country’s justice system. By the Policy Study, Publication, and Advocacy (PSPA) Center for People Empowerment in Governance December…
‘It’s Like Shooting Chickens In Abra’
By ARTEMIO A. DUMLAO Bulatlat.com Bangued, Abra (December 10, 2010) – Like shooting chickens or hunting ducks, violence continues to happen in Abra. Regaining its ugly tag as Cordillera’s “Killings Fields”, two more people were killed on Wednesday in Pidigan town, while gunmen exchanged shots with policemen in Bangued, Abra’s capital town on Thursday morning,…