Student leader urges CHR to probe red-tagging, house visits
Members of the volunteer group were photographed and recorded during the activity without their consent.
Jan
2025
15
ACT Teachers Rep. France Castro demands apology, retraction of BJMP memo
"This is a dangerous and malicious act of red-tagging by the BJMP. They are using an unverified social media post from a discredited source to justify surveillance and monitoring of a sitting member of Congress and political prisoners."
Jan
2025
15
Karapatan slams Marcos Jr.’s UNSC bid, citing gross human rights violations and suppression of dissent
Human rights group Karapatan criticized the Philippine government's push for a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, saying Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is misleading both national and international audiences with a record of extrajudicial killings and military repression.
Jan
2025
15
Cagayan de Oro artist harassed while performing silent protest during Iglesia ni Cristo rally
Nicolas Aca’s performance expressed a critique on “how religion can bind devotees to their leaders' agenda as if in chains.”
Jan
2025
14
Guerrilla fighter on medical leave kept in secret detention, rights group reveals
‘Palit-ulo’ is the practice of arresting and charging family members when the police fail to apprehend a suspect, a common pattern which Karapatan traced to the administration of Rodrigo Duterte at the height of the drug war.
Jan
2025
14
Migrant workers group condemns SSS rate hike and membership penalties for PhilHealth data breach
The contribution rate hike, which started as 12 percent of the salary in 2019, will now amount to 15 percent of the salary in 2025.
Jan
2025
12
Daughter of political prisoner subjected to ‘inhumane’ strip search at Metro Manila Jail
Kapatid said this incident shows a pattern of systemic abuse and inadequate training among jail authorities, who violated the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology's rule that strip searches should only occur when necessary, and that the invasive, traumatic body cavity search should only be performed with probable cause after a strip search.
Jan
2025
10
40th birthday still in detention: Campaign for Mary Jane Veloso’s clemency continues
“Now that she has been in the country for nearly a month, Marcos should use his unbound power to grant her clemency if he truly cares about our OFWs who have become victims of human trafficking. There is no more reason to delay her freedom."
Jan
2025
10
Meta’s move to end 3rd party fact-checkers, a disservice to the public, groups say
“While Meta is correct in saying it should not be the arbiter of truth, this change as well as the decreasing emphasis on news and the prioritization of emotion and engagement, risks making truth trivial, inconsequential and just a distraction from being distracted by online noise."
Jan
2025
9
Negros-based NGO helping farmers exposes lies, inaccuracies in terror financing complaint
PDG, at its core, has spent decades advocating for agrarian reform, sustainable agriculture, and the rights of small farmers and fisherfolk in Southern Negros. Genol told Bulatlat that PDG was founded in 1987 in response to the Negros famine.
Jan
2025
9
Bayan Muna slams proposed LRT fare hike amid record poverty levels
"These are not just numbers. For minimum wage earners who rely on the LRT daily, this means less food on the table, less money for basic necessities. How can LRMC justify another fare hike when they just increased rates?" former Bayan Muna representative Ferdinand Gaite said.
Jan
2025
9
Manila police wields Martial Law-era law against 10 Makabayan senatorial bets
“The practice of filing trumped up charges of “illegal assembly” must stop. Marching to Mendiola to denounce injustice should not be criminalized,” they said, mentioning how the ‘wholesale filing’ of the MPD even misidentified Mody Floranda of Piston as “female” and Moro leader Amirah Lidasan as a member of ACT.
Jan
2025
8
Group fumes at latest OFW death in Kuwait: ‘Abolish Kafala system’
An analysis made by the Migrant Forum in Asia showed that the Kafala system only favors the rights of the employers, highlighting the system’s failure to protect the rights and welfare of the migrant workers.
Jan
2025
7
Voiding questionable search warrants brings hope to political prisoners, vulnerable communities
"Kapatid hopes this new Supreme Court decision could pave the way for the dismissal of cases like theirs, where faulty and vague warrants have been used as a tool of persecution of activists, leading to their unjust and prolonged imprisonment," said Kapatid spokesperson Fides Lim.
Jan
2025
5
Balik-Tanaw | A reflection on Epiphany, and what it may mean for our times
When the album Folklore was released on July 2020, it was just months after Covid 19 affected the entire world. Taylor Swift isolated herself in those days, but aloneness proved to be fertile ground for a revelation. One song stood out among those included in the album. In this poetic, lyrical piece, Swift “empathizes with doctors and nurses, who served the affected despite their harrowing work, and mental trauma they have to experience while handling the loss of human lives.”
Jan
2025
5
Slain child in Masbate caring, playful, responsible
Known for being caring and responsible, JP learned to drive at a young age to assist his mother with errands, often taking her to the supermarket and his siblings to school.
