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.
"The good thing is, we conduct these livelihood training, together with their capacitation on leadership and paralegal. This also helps the sustainability of the indigenous communities in the long term."
“The training teaches us how to fight for our rights. Some of us are no longer silent nor do we submit in fear."
“What we are witnessing is one of the most brutal genocides in modern history.”
Mong Palatino, secretary general of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan), said that the current genocide in the Palestine did not start two years ago, but a culmination of over a century of conflict.
"The conduct of these companies reveals a callous prioritization of profit over human life."
“Where is the swift judicial remedy to enforced disappearance through the writ of amparo?”
“To admit the crime but shield the culprits is to side with the oppressor. This is not justice—it is the normalization of impunity.”
In this article, Bulatlat fact-checks the claims of the government officials in the major anti-corruption protest in Manila that resulted in more than 215 individuals arrested, including 91 minors. The reality: there are casualties, maximum tolerance is questionable, and the police used teargas.
The multi-billion peso corruption scandal could have been used to fund healthcare facilities, education, and other basic social services. Instead of respecting people’s right to protest against corruption, the government responded with violence.
“While corrupt officials and abusive authorities remain unaccountable, it is ordinary citizens, especially children who face violent arrests and continued deprivation of their rights. This stark double standard must end. And in any way unacceptable to violate children’s rights in this most brutal and traumatizing manner."
"The Filipino people must not be made accomplices to the slaughter of Palestinians."
All the criminal charges against Pura Luka Vega are now dismissed.
Taking into account the mass killings of Palestinians in Gaza, the resulting serious bodily and mental harm, and the lack of accountability, the Commission finds that there is a consistent pattern that clearly shows the intent to physically destroy Palestinians in Gaza as a group.
“The Institute is of the opinion that the EU seafarers and the applicant (Filipino and Indonesian seafarers) have carried out their work under equal or comparable working conditions. They were colleagues who worked on the respondent’s (Dutch shipping companies) seagoing vessels under the same conditions.”
“Return the people’s stolen money! Seize the luxury cars, expensive watches, signature bags, and designer clothes of corrupt contractors, officials, and politicians."
Several bruises and wounds have been discovered upon inspection of her injuries at the Quirino Memorial Medical Center. Bausing
For the families left behind by the brutal anti-illegal drug campaign of Rodrigo Duterte, the prosecution of the International Criminal Court is ‘their court of last resort’. The recent postponement of the hearing about the confirmation of charges, for them, is a delaying tactic.
“Even in their death bed, even when they could no longer walk, many of them only have fragments of memories of war, but every time we mention the Japanese embassy and Lila Pilipina, they remain eager in pursuing justice and accountability."
"Every mother, every family of the disappeared lives in a prison of uncertainty. Our loved ones are gone but our fight for them is not."
"They told us that there is already a law in place. But we have repeatedly told them: it does not work,” said Edith Burgos, mother of disappeared activist Jonas Burgos and the chairperson of International Coalition Against Enforced Disappearances (ICAED).
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