Environmental activists decry destructive projects, imperialist influence, and human rights abuses on Earth Day.
Human rights groups and advocates led by Bayan Muna Partylist gather at Bantayog ng mga Bayani to launch the white ribbon campaign symbolizing their solidarity with the families of EJK victims during former President Rodrigo Duterte's regime. Aside from holding...
Relatives of missing activists who have disappeared call for the surfacing of their missing loved ones amid the calls of supporters as well as family members of former president Rodrigo Duterte to bring him back to the Philippines.
"The Legacy Lecture Series and the journal that we are launching today are efforts to honor Dean Luis and his ideals and contributions."
Chanting calls for accountability, human rights activists marched from the International Criminal Court (ICC) to the Scheveningen Prison, demanding justice for the victims of extrajudicial killings (EJKs) under the administration of former president Rodrigo Duterte, March 18.
Activists demand accountability for Duterte's war on drugs, calling for conviction and justice for victims of extrajudicial killings.
Former Bayan Muna Congressman Carlos Isagani Zarate decried Meralco's decision, claiming that the company is once again squeezing more from consumers who are already struggling with rising prices of basic goods.
Youth groups held Black Friday protest action outside Miriam College along Katipunan Avenue, Quezon City on Friday, March 14 in, supporting ICC’s arrest of Duterte and demanding justice for all victims of human rights violations. Sectoral and progressive groups joined the protest carrying their specific calls amidst Duterte arrest.
Panatang Luntian spearheaded the Luntian de Avance: Town Hall on Environmental Rights and Climate Justice, where they present an 11-point People's Environmental Agenda for the upcoming elections. The event held at UP Diliman brought together environmental...
Protesters welcome the arrest as a step toward justice for the thousands killed in Duterte’s bloody War on Drugs. Families of extrajudicial killing victims join the demonstration, demanding accountability for the abuses committed under his administration.
On International Working Women’s Day, Gabriela National Alliance of Women leads a program at Liwasang Bonifacio, followed by a march to Mendiola, to expose worsening conditions faced by women under Ferdinand Marcos Jr. regime.
"If this space is threatened, this raises the alarm for civil society and peoples’ organisations for their democratic participation in these multilateral spaces."
Fisherfolk group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (PAMALAKAYA) held a protest in front of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) on Monday, Feb. 25, to demand significant reforms on the law governing fisheries amid the legal battle over the municipal waters.
Both Neri Colmenares and Carlos Zarate are working as pro-bono legal counsels for victims of human rights violations in the current and past administrations. Both of them were lawmakers and three-term members of the House of Representatives, representing the marginalized sector under the Bayan Muna Partylist.
Following the three-consecutive oil price hikes after new year, Bayan Muna held a protest in Petron gasoline station in Philcoa, Quezon City today, Jan. 20.
"In the midst of the intensifying economic crisis and the worsening poverty and hunger faced by Filipinos, the old ways will no longer suffice. We need progressive politics to craft a progressive development program that a progressive national budget will support,"
Mary Jane Veloso’s accounts reveal the realities of Filipino migrant workers who are victimized by human traffickers. Mary Jane’s family and supporters call for President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to grant her clemency, a conditional release of a person deprived of liberty (PDL), mitigating the consequences of criminal liability.
“The imperialist powers of the United States force our country to remain semi-colonial and semi-feudal, with Marcos Jr. acting as a willing puppet. Foreign companies, in collusion with big-business oligarchs, plunder our natural resources, receiving a green light from the government through the enactment of neoliberal policies."
Labor rights activists from Southern Tagalog-based labor center Pagkakaisa ng Manggagawa sa Timog Katagalugan (PAMANTIK-KMU) held a protest action in front of the Department of National Defense (DND) in Quezon City, demanding the release of labor organizers Gavino...
Rural women condemned the Department of Agrarian Reform's complicity in massive land-grabbing by the Villars, Aranetas, Cojuangcos, Ayalas, and foreign investors.
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