The World Bank, in its recently-released "Governance Matters 2006" report, gave the country a lower ranking in its control of corruption benchmark, falling from 50.5% in 1998 to 37.4% in 2005. BY IBON FOUNDATION Bulatlat.com The World Bank, in its recently-released...
The future of some 12 million “unauthorized immigrants” in the U.S., including nearly 1 million Filipinos, is at stake in two U.S. immigration bills. If the law is enacted, multitudes of Filipinos will be deported and the remittance-dependent Philippine economy...
The Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) is a dangerous first step towards complete government renunciation over policy-setting towards the development of the domestic Philippine economy, said IBON research head Sonny Africa. BY IBON FOUNDATION...
He may have been detained for almost seven months now, but Ka Bel is not letting his captors off the hook. Clad in a red barong and escorted by fully-armed Philippine National Police (PNP) personnel, detained Anakpawis (AP) Congressman Crispin “Ka Bel” Beltran...
He was vice mayor of Cebu and a human rights lawyer when arrested and detained for three months in 1972. He pursued human rights lawyering even after his release. Thirty four years hence and three kids later, he feels that human rights work is as urgent today under...
The Trades and Labour Council (Unions WA) representing 17 unions and 20 percent of West Australia’s labour force wants to send a fact-finding delegation to the Philippines to investigate the assassinations of over 700 civilians including party-list and community...
The Department of Health warned that dengue remains to be a major threat among Filipinos even as this year’s figures is represent a 21 percent slide in the number of cases compared to last year. Health Sec. Francisco Duque III said that the mosquito-borne disease...
By Le Monde Editorial Posted by Bulatlat.com Defenders of human rights in the United States and elsewhere may rejoice over the speech George Bush pronounced Wednesday, September 6. The American president acknowledged the existence of "secret prisons," in which the...
By David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz Posted by Bulatlat.com Nothing else worked that day. The President was flying haplessly around the country looking distinctly unpresidential; the Vice President was in a bunkered panic. The military couldn't scramble armed jets...
By Maura Reynolds, Richard B. Schmitt and David G. Savage The Los Angeles Times Posted by Bulatlat Convictions could also be based on material unseen by the accused. The Senate may object. Washington — President Bush asked Congress Wednesday to approve a new system...
BY MALAYA AREVALO Posted by Bulatlat.com there is a whisper of memories rising in the fields, the earth wet, warm with tears, names rambling in the shivering hollow of bullet shells, something is certainly swelling, the furious stirring of want, the clamoring...
NI RAUL FUNILAS Inilathala ng Bulatlat.com Por dios por santo naman, Ano na ba’ng nangyayari sa ating bayan? Ganito na lamang, ganire na lamang ang lamangan Kahit saang departamento ng pamahalaan. Ang sabi nila'y nangaglilingkod, Por dios por santo! himig...
Because they have not the fear of God in them, we must try to instill at least the fear of the wrath of a people fed up with lies and of being screwed by their supposed leaders in broad daylight. Let us fight to stop GMA’s chacha in its tracks. BY CAROL...
Mula 1947 hanggang 1991, sa higit tatlong libong naiulat na krimeng nagawa ng mga hukbong Kano dito sa bansa, wala ni isang kaso ang umabot sa hukuman at nalitis at nakapaghatol laban sa mga nagkasalang sundalo ng Estados Unidos, kabilang na ang mga krimeng...
China's fast GDP growth has depleted its natural resources and damaged its environment. Workers and peasants in China have suffered. Even the fortunes of the "middle class" will fall. The rapidly growing protests to plant closings, land grabbing, wage and benefit...
The walk to the Rizal Park before dusk in 1975 proved to be not just a stroll for 46-year old Amparo Diaz, an organizer of the urban poor in Tondo, Manila. She found herself picked up by armed men and herded into a jeep. BY DABET CASTANEDA Bulatlat.com The walk to...
A local human rights group cast doubts on what the military claims to be a mass grave of the communist movement’s purge victims. They said the site was actually a “no-man’s land”, where the village population evacuated to escape military operations. BY JOHANN HEIN...
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) in Negros has described the arrest by government soldiers of a group of 11 theater members as “illegal.” It will investigate the case. By Karl G. Ombion Bulatlat.com BACOLOD City – In these days of politically-motivated...
The Arroyo regime’s “total war” is not only victimizing progressive party lists, lawyers, church workers, teachers, students, and peasants. It is also victimizing workers who are peacefully exercising their union rights as the experience of the Samahan ng mga...
By Joel Connelly The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted by Bulatlat.com In what I hope was an early-morning miscue, the weekend KPLU newsreader recently told listeners that "labor bosses" were gathering in Wenatchee for the Washington State Labor Council's annual...
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