Dominic Gutoman is hungry for new ideas and connections. As a community manager and a reporter, his energy overflows as his reaction to most things mundane or sublime.
Dominic Gutoman is hungry for new ideas and connections. As a community manager and a reporter, his energy overflows as his reaction to most things mundane or sublime.
“Without an operative and legally effective designation at the time of the alleged acts, an essential element of the crime is wanting.”
Kapatid demands to allow the immediate delivery of medicines and to “mount a treatment and sanitation campaign to prevent the further spread of disease inside prisons.”
The tragedy is that even brands that have the capacity to improve their workers’ labor rights refuse to do so and are enjoying impunity.
"The successive legal losses of Duterte at the ICC should be an indicator that no one is buying Duterte's delaying tactics."
“The threats against Gorgonio and PDG workers are not isolated incidents but part of a systematic campaign of intimidation and red-tagging against political dissenters, human rights lawyers and development workers."
The prosecution is precluded from seeking a review of the dismissal and from filing more financing terrorism charges based on the same set of facts.
“The continued presence of US military forces and facilities on Philippine soil, far from contributing to genuine national security, exposes the Filipino people to grave and escalating security risks by entangling the country in US military adventurism and making the Philippines a potential target of retaliatory action by nations against whom the US wages war.”
The military aggression of US and Israel across Iran has triggered widespread instability across West Asia and a threat to the international human rights law.
We fight back until no Duterte will ever sit in power again and rule this country.
“Duterte supporters and their bot network are fabricating lies in their desperation to bury the truth being told by relatives of drug war victims."
ICC’s ongoing hearing is important as the Philippine justice system makes it hard for victims and survivors to fight back against a state-enforced policy.
“I filed a case (but) I can still feel that those in power continue to control the justice that I have been waiting for so long.”
“We have longed for the moment when he will face his crimes."
Rodrigo Duterte himself ordered the killings several times before, during, and after his Presidential term.
“For us victims, the confirmation of charges against Duterte is an answered prayer. It is clear to us that the ICC shows the call for justice does not end in the Philippines."
“Their assertion is that their ancestral lands are being stolen through forgeries of their signatures.”
In solidarity with Veloso, supporters also brought a large heart-shaped open letter to boost her morale while they campaign for her freedom.
“Today, we have seen and read the names of the real culprits – they who have blood on their hands for implementing a deadly policy. The world ought to know who they are.”
“The courts have limits if the law remains outdated. Congress should keep up; let us finally pass the SOGIESC (Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression, Sexual Characteristics) Equality Bill. Everyone has the equal right to grow old and live with the one they love, and this includes the right to own property and other fundamental rights."
Under the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG) signed by the Philippine government and the NDFP in 1995, peace consultants like Ariel Badiang should be protected.
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