BY JEFF OCAMPO Bulatlat.com August 30, 2008 – 11:27 p.m. Families of victims of enforced disappearances, along with their supporters, party-list groups and people’s organizations gathered today, August 30, to mark the International Day of the Disappeared and held a program at Plaza Miranda in Quiapo around 3 p.m. to call for justice for the…
Category: Human Rights
Protestant Bishops Appeal for Release of Detained Pastor
Members of the Council of Bishops of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines intensified their campaign for the release of Pastor Berlin Guerrero with a “Pilgrimage Walk for Justice and Freedom” at the Court of Appeals. BY RONALYN V. OLEA HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Bulatlat.com Vol. VIII, No. 29, August 24-30, 2008 Members of…
Karapatan at 13: Defending Human Rights, Advancing People’s Rights
Why do they risk death to defend human rights? For Karapatan workers, it’s the way to live. BY RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com Volume VIII, Number 30, August 31- September 6, 2008 “What is there in these people to work in the way they do? Perhaps, the biggest reward they could get is a hug from…
IFI Priest Receives Death Threat
A priest of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI) received a death threat from suspected state agents. BY Bulatlat.com HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Volume VIII, Number 28, August 20-26, 2008 Reverend Father Romeo Tagud of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI) received an envelope containing an M16 bullet around 6:30 a.m. Tagud is the secretary-general of Promotion of…
Fighting for Land, a Decent Income, for their Lives and their Livelihood – the Daily Struggles of Farmers of Negros
A government ad extolling farmers as heroes for providing food for our tables has been airing regularly on television. It also describes what the government is supposedly doing to support Filipino farmers. But the farmers of Guihulngan, Negors Oriental tell a different story: of fighting for their land, higher wages and farm gate prices, and…
UN Lawyer Demands LGU Leader’s Arrest for Rights Worker’s Slay
A human rights lawyer who is now with the United Nations urges the head of the Philippine National Police Regional Office in the Cordillera (PRO-COR) to cause the immediate arrest and prosecution of a Mountain Province official identified as a suspect in the killing of a human rights worker. BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch…
Bayan Muna Member Slain in Compostela
BY Bulatlat.com Posted 6:43 p.m., Aug. 16, 2008 Bayan Muna (People First) organizer Wawie Dutarot was shot to death, around 1:00 p.m. yesterday by two armed men on board a motorcycle in Monkayo, Compostella Valley. Dutarot is the 132nd Bayan Muna member killed under the Arroyo government. In a statement, Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo…
Hundreds Troop to DOJ to Demand the Release of Peasant Leader
BY Bulatlat.com August 11, 2008 – 1:17 p.m. Hundreds of peasants from Laguna, Cavite and Batangas provinces trooped to and banged the gates of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to demand the immediate release of Randall Echanis, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP-National Peasant Movement) national deputy secretary general for external affairs. Echanis, 60, was abducted…
Two Journalists Killed in a Week, Violence Against Media Thrives Under Atmosphere of Impunity
In less than a week, two journalists of the Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) were shot in separate incidents by motorcycle-riding gunmen in broad daylight. Both of them died. BY KAREN PAPELLERO HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Contributed to Bulatlat.com Vol. VIII, No. 27, August 10-16, 2008 In less than a week, two journalists of the Radio Mindanao…
Quirante Sisters: A Tale of Continuing Injustice
Arrested by the military on false charges of child abuse allegedly for recruiting a minor to the NPA, which has already been dismissed, and rebellion, sisters Emilia and Maricris Quirante have been languishing in jail for more than a year now. Worse, the fact that the city has no fiscal for the past three months…
Group Urges Cordi Farmers to ‘Bear Arms’ vs Soldiers
A Cordillera-based activist group is urging the region’s farmers to bear arms to defend themselves from government soldiers who, two weeks ago, allegedly murdered a farmer in Lubuagan, Kalinga. BY ACE ALEGRE HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Contributed to Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 26, August 3-9, 2008 BAGUIO CITY (246 kms north of Manila) – A Cordillera-based…