‘Wage hike one of the best Yuletide Gifts lawmakers can give before 2013 elections’ (Photos by Marya Salamat / Bulatlat.com)
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO and ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Two years have passed and yet President Aquino's promise of rendering justice is far from being a reality. Worse, impunity still reigns as rights violations pile up as the government orders the massive deployment of troops not only to run after the NPA but also to protect the operations and profits of big foreign and local corporations.
On Human Rights Day, rights groups slam Aquino government for violations
Farmers march against militarization, terror in their communities
Typhoon Pablo and large-scale mining wreak havoc in Mindanao - progressive group
“Before, we could work in our farms without fear. Life is difficult but we could still eat at least three times a day. We peacefully sleep at night. My children could still go to school. But everything changed when the soldiers arrived.” By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL...
“There is compelling evidence that human rights defenders, in particular those advocating for land and environmental rights, are under serious threat, are constantly vilified, intimidated and ‘terrorized.’” – Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders...
“Mindanao is faced with the crisis of the state of impunity and the calamity caused by Typhoon Pablo, which were both driven by plunder and the systematic violation of human rights for corporate and elitists’ profit and interests.” By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO...
“We condemn the continuing extrajudicial killings and the plunder of our resources that take away our rights, land and lives. We denounce the US-inspired and directed counterinsurgency blueprint Oplan Bayanihan.” – Karapatan By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com...
By KIMBERLIE OLMAYA N. QUITASOL Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY — “It is true. Oplan Bayanihan has succeeded; it has succeeded in violating human rights.” This was the statement of Cordillera Human Rights Alliance (CHRA) secretary general Jude Baggo during a press...
By KIMBERLIE OLMAYA N. QUITASOL Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY — Residents of Gumhang village, Tinoc, Ifugao called for the withdrawal of the Philippine Army’s 86th Infantry Battalion (IB) stationed in their community. In a petition, the residents decried that the...
Human Rights Day 2012: Protesters took to the streets to condemn human rights violations under Noynoy Aquino's regime
By CONG B. CORRALES Bulatlat.com CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY — Opposition to a proposed law, aimed at turning public hospitals into government-owned and controlled corporations (GOCCs) has snowballed, here. This, despite its proponents' claim that the bill would boost...
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MALOLOS, Bulacan – As the world commemorated the 149th Human Rights Day, Mrs. Erlinda Cadapan, mother of missing activist Sherlyn, took the witness stand at the Bulacan Regional Trial Court Branch 14. Her more than six years of...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Is this how Aquino wants to celebrate Human Rights Day, with more impunity towards our beleaguered environment defenders?”– Fr. Oliver Castor, spokesperson of Task Force-Justice for Environment Defenders
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Taking the cudgels for the widow of slain anti-mining tribe leader in Bukidnon, bishops of the United Church of Christ of the Philippines (UCCP) wrote to President Benigno Aquino III seeking justice for Jimmy Liguyon....
By JULIUS D. MARIVELES Bulatlat.com BACOLOD CITY – A pastoral worker who was nabbed inside a convent decried the seemingly Gestapo tactics employed by the Regional Intelligence Unit of the Philippine National Police when they served the arrest warrant against her...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com Human rights is a very important issue for us in Bulatlat. We have written about the life of each and every victim of human rights violations. We tried to provide the context by which these violations are being committed by...
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The Aquino government alternately blames the devastating landslide in Compostela Valley on illegal logging and small-scale miners. But illegal logging operations would not prosper without the connivance of the Department of...
By MARYA SALAMAT
Progressive groups in Mindanao describe the devastation caused by typhoon Pablo as “an environmental apocalypse not simply caused by nature’s wrath but by the Aquino government continuing puppetry to foreign mining interests and the government’s greed and corruption in general.”
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By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO and SIDLANGAN NATIVIDAD
They could have been paralyzed by depression and fear after losing their husbands suddenly and violently. But they chose to trek the dangerous road of the struggle for justice and for the defense of their land, livelihood and life.
“I am braver and stronger now that he is gone. Many people trusted him so I have to fight for justice to be served.” By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – From the very beginning, Rosalie Cabal, 42, understood why her husband Margarito fought, until his last...
Sharon found it unfortunate that it was only after her husband’s death she realized the value of fighting for their ancestral domain against mining companies and their hired mercenaries. By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Sharon Liguyon, 36, would never...
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