This explainer goes beyond defining human rights: it exposes the systemic failures that enable violations and reminds that the marginalized—as rights-holders— should be empowered to know, claim, and defend their rights.
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Who Will Shoot the Ball? Reps. Mikey Arroyo, Luis Villafuerte, and Prospero Nograles are passing the Charter change ball around among each other as each avoids taking the flak for pushing the much-opposed move. They dilly-dally on the measure, while conscious that what is important for them is to be able to shoot the ball before the 2010 presidential elections.
(By Flon Faurillo/Bulatlat.com)
Rape of Philippine Sovereignty. The recent surfacing of a Filipino who claimed she was raped by a US Marine, so soon after the overturning of Lance Corporal Daniel Smith’s conviction by the Court of Appeals, shows that for so long as the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) is in force and the Balikatan military exercises are being held, there will be more victims of rape and other forms of sexual aggression by US soldiers. (By Flon Faurillo/Bulatlat.com)
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Benedictine nuns welcome victims of rights violations from Mindanao (Photo by Janess Ann J. Ellao / Bulatlat.com)
'Stop killing women human rights defenders,’ groups tell Aquino (Photo by Ronalyn V. Olea / Bulatlat.com)
UP Manila students slam ‘no late payment’ memo (Photo courtesy of Anakbayan-UP Manila / Bulatlat.com)
Celebrating Andres Bonifacio’s 150th year (Text and photos by Anne Marxze D. Umil / Bulatlat.com)
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