“With a DDS at the helm of DAR, the prospect of genuine land reform and rural industrialization is now next to impossible.”
MANILA -- Kin of victims of extrajudicial killings -- both political and drug war-related -- gathered at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani on Dec. 1 to protest what they called President Duterte's tyranny. As the International Human Rights Day draws nearer, progressives...
Elisa Badayos of Karapatan-Central Visayas and peasant activist Elioterio Moises were killed in the attack.
"He is a killer that the military shouldn’t emulate and be proud of. The military should even condemn Palparan."
"State terrorism and repression has taken away our family members, who were labeled ‘enemies of the state.’”
Even without a “crackdown,” human rights violations under President Duterte intensify each day.
The family of slain Lumad youth Obello Bay-ao is appealing to the Department of Justice to investigate the case of his murder.
Human rights defenders are understandably disappointed with the Nov. 13-14 31st ASEAN Summit. Not only were human rights the least of the concerns of the leaders of the member-countries of the Association, it also seemed as if they had come to the Philippines with...
Today up to Nov. 27, the fifth round of formal negotiations in the GRP-NDFP peace talks had been scheduled to take place in Oslo, Norway. The two sides had been all set to tackle a three-point agenda hammered out in a series of discreet back-channel discussions in...
Progressive fishers decried what they called "fascism in the sea."
Review by PAULINO LIM, JR. E. San Juan, Jr., Carlos Bulosan: Revolutionary Filipino Writer in the United States A Critical Appraisal New York: Peter Lang, 2017 Carlos Bulosan: Revolutionary Writer in the United States is part of a project destined for the world’s...
By RUTH LUMIBAO Bulatlat MANILA — Three days after President Duterte’s threats to crackdown on Leftist activists and classify the New People’s Army (NPA) as a “terrorist” group, nine peasant activists were arrested today in Batangas province. In an urgent report...
Observing its 50th year of existence, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) edged slightly onward on a raft of previously agreed plans, blueprints, treaties, and consensual agreements, cited in 144 items of the Chairman’s Statement, at the end of its...
Even if he’s serious about it, President Rodrigo Duterte’s offer for the Philippines to host a high-level meeting, or summit, on human rights is unlikely to materialize. The leaders of those countries accused of human rights violations would hardly welcome an...
“Thirteen years after Hacienda Luisita massacre, no one has been arrested, put to trial and punished for the carnage that killed seven farmworkers on November 16, 2004.”
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