Filipinos ranked the third largest ethnic group who reported to have experienced discrimination and harassment, according to a report from Stop AAPI Hate.
Asian hate is nothing new, Covid-19 made it worse
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Government still fails in COVID-19 mass testing
Restricting mobility is meant to give government the time to build its capacities to stop the spread of the virus. But what happens when a government only resorts to a lockdown and nothing else?
2 Lumad farmers, 1 student killed in another Lianga massacre
This is the second massacre in Diatagon, Surigao del Sur.
‘Long wait for justice is finally coming to light’ – kin of drug-related killings
“I was so elated that I could barely sleep. I’m thinking that ‘this is it!’ Our long wait for justice is finally coming to light.”
ICC prosecutor seeks authorization to start probe of drug-related killings in PH
“…[t]here is a reasonable basis to believe that the crime against humanity of murder has been committed on the territory of the Philippines between 1 July 2016 and 16 March 2019 in the context of the Government of Philippines ‘war on drugs’ campaign.”
Kin of bedridden former OFW appeals for gov’t assistance
After more than three decades of being one the country’s so-called modern day heroes, Estela’s family laments that they are now left on their own, without government aid provided to them.
Political prisoner dies after 16 years in jail
“What kind of government jails a family for 16 years and ignores all appeals for their freedom although the elderly Alegre couple are eligible for pardon and humanitarian release especially at this time of pandemic?”
On Independence Day, Filipinos want to be free from Duterte’s ‘subservience to China’
As the country commemorates Independence Day, Filipino progressives said they have had enough of only seeing it on paper when in reality, freedom has been scant if not trampled upon under the Duterte administration.
Gov’t employees fear massive layoffs over Duterte’s devolution order
A government workers union said Duterte’s executive order directing the full devolution of certain government functions is silent over thousands of contractual workers who are most likely to be laid-off when this order is implemented.
Health advocates alarmed over PH silence on TRIPS waiver on vaccines
Health experts and lawmakers are alarmed over the Philippine government’s deafening silence on moves of several countries to press for the waiver of TRIPS on medicines, particularly on COVID-19 vaccines.
AMLC freezes peace consultant’s compensation as martial law victim
Vicente Ladlad’s wife, Fides said that his accounts are not from the money laundering or terrorism financing but resulted from Republic Act No. 10368 or the Human Rights Victims Reparation and Recognition Act of 2013.