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.
Dec
2024
1
Marcoses asked to pay P203-B overdue estate tax
Considering the devastations wrought by recent typhoons in many parts of the country, an activist group has urged Marcos Jr. and his family to pay their P203-billion estate tax deficiency that fell due 25 long years ago.
Dec
2024
1
Balik-Tanaw | No one knows when, but the signs of time
Our Gospel reading this first Sunday of Advent is intriguing. How can we connect this to our preparation for the Messiah’s birthday on Christmas, and to our preparations for the second coming–the End of Days, as some people believe it will be?
Nov
2024
30
COP29: What did agri-food gain from Baku?
The deal forged in Baku is an appalling development for the climate and planet, especially for the agri-food systems and all the vulnerable and marginalized social sectors that rely on it for their life and livelihood.
Nov
2024
30
Family of slain youth IP files charges vs military
“Jay-El was a son, a brother, and a leader. He deserved a future, not a bullet."
Nov
2024
30
First person | Rights lawyer shares his story in new book – ‘Ransomed by Love: A Happy Changemaker’s Unfinished Journey’
“His memoir allows us to see not only his success and glory, but also his faults and a vulnerability rarely seen from him.”
Nov
2024
30
Irene Khan asks PH: Have you reviewed cases vs journalists already?
United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression and opinion Irene Khan urged the Philippine government to review cases of journalists facing charges in court, asking as well about the status of yet unsolved media killings in the country.
Nov
2024
29
Int’l rights body criticizes failed PH drug policy under Duterte, Marcos Jr
Jerrie Abella, an AI campaigner, detailed the three critical stages where human rights violations occur: during arrests, within drug detention centers, and post-release. Abella described so-called "drug rehabilitation centers" as punitive detention facilities where individuals, including adolescents, are subjected to invasive drug tests and forced treatment. These centers, he said, do not offer rehabilitation but instead serve as sites of coercion.
Nov
2024
28
Network to hold Rodrigo Duterte accountable launched
"Justice is holding Duterte and his accomplices accountable. They are responsible for thousands of extrajudicial killings."
Nov
2024
26
Molbog leader charged with grave coercion for asserting right to ancestral land
Eusebio Pelayo, 69, a community leader and a Molbog resident in Mariahangin, Bugsuk, Palawan, is summoned to court on December 4 due to a criminal complaint filed by Caesar M. Ortega, described as the “Authorized Representative of Land owners situated within Bowen Island” in the document. Ortega is NCIP’s former OIC executive director of the NCIP and Ancestral Domain Office’s (ADO) former director.
Nov
2024
26
When a national expressway destroyed rice fields in Nueva Ecija, farmers’ debts and floods deepened
As the Philippines loan burden rises from internationally-funded projects like the P11.8-billion (USD 200, 218, 740) Central Luzon Link Expressway (CLLEX), local farmers are forced to constantly borrow money to sustain their livelihoods and families for day-to-day survival.
Nov
2024
26
15 years later, still no justice for Ampatuan Massacre victims
“I can’t accept until now. It has been 15 years, but there is still no further action. I lost my trust in the government,” said Catherine Nuñez whose son Victor, a UNTV reporter, was one of the 32 media workers and 26 others killed in the bloody massacre.
Nov
2024
24
Marcos Jr. gifts deeper military presence to US
All these evasively general, vague statements are surely covering up something much bigger. The Filipino people are entitled to know.
Nov
2024
24
Balik-Tanaw | Bringing about the kindom of God
In the year 600 BC, the kingdoms of Jerusalem and Judah found themselves subjugated, first by the Egyptian and then by the Babylonian empires. The empires, as ruling authorities, had control over various aspects of governance. They dictated policies, imposed heavy taxes, and appointed tyrannical vassal kings, with all facets of rule falling under their command.
Nov
2024
24
Konteksto | ‘Negosyonibersidad’
Bagama’t nangangakong hindi palalayasin ang mga manininda, nakapagtatakang mas binibigyan ng prayoridad sa espasyo ng kampus ang mga “taga-labas” sa halip na ‘yong mga bahagi ng komunidad.
Nov
2024
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