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“President Duterte’s ‘compromise’ means that he wants workers to be exploited indefinitely; and that we could never accept.”
As of December 2017, Karapatan has already documented 126 cases of extrajudicial killings in the whole country -- at least half of which committed in the Southern Mindanao Region (SMR).
“We have exhausted all means to raise our issues to the local DA (Department of Agriculture) and Samar LGUs (local government units) but our demands fell on deaf ears."
The super agency would further increase the cost of “socialized housing,” enrich real estate developers and, justify and speed up the eviction and demolition of informal settlers.
"We were hoping that Sec. Piñol would face us and hear out our demands but it turned out that he has snubbed us and disregarded our demands."
“The fisherfolk is already being battered by numerous issues besetting the fishing sector; namely, the fish catch depletion due to corporate plunder of marine resources, the anti-fisherfolk law that allows commercial fishing fleets to exploit municipal waters, and the government’s lack of support to our sector?"
The 32nd EDSA commemoration was concluded with vows to defeat any other would-be dictator and tyrant.
The proposed cha-cha will dismantle the Pro-poor and Pro-Filipino provisions of the 1987 Constitution.
After three years of postponements, presentations, and hearings, the trial of former Army general Jovito Palparan on the abduction and torture of UP students Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeño has come to an end.
"Unsurprisingly, military rule has constricted mechanisms for redress, platforms for protest, and initiatives that petition the government for immediate action.”
The consensus among labor groups is that contractual workers constitute at least half of the employed, and in many instances, up to eight in every 10 employed.
More than the press releases, the Department of Health (DOH) must explain the issues and implications and give the parents of children who were vaccinated with Dengvaxia the assurance of free and accessible services.”
The Financial Times reported that among the top selling products of big pharmaceutical companies are vaccines.
“We women have proven our worth and power in different levels, by joining forces with the numerous struggling masses.”
“Whatever twaddle they claim, the current jeepney operators will not be able to survive the fleet management and consolidation ordered in the Omnibus Franchising Guidelines.”
“The lockdown and the said operations are part of the Duterte administration's anti-communist hysteria, and has no objective other than to 'pacify the human rights movement in Davao, which has a proud history of advancing civil and political rights.”
Seen as a precedent to nationwide military rule in the Philippines, human rights groups and advocates and freedom-loving individuals readily opposed the second extension and denounced the Supreme Court's decision.
Aside from the usual extension of the terms of incumbents, allowing 100 percent foreign ownership of Philippine resources and businesses, and removing provisions that guarantee human rights and civil liberties, the latest proposed amendments include enshrining the pork barrel system into the basic law of the land.
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