The good news is that all regional wage boards in the country have granted wage increases. This obviously means that private sector workers nationwide are now entitled to higher wages. The bad news, however, is that the increase in wages is not enough to offset the...
The head of Kalinga provincial police, Chief Supt. Pedro Ramos, is being sought after a supposed rash of unsolved killings including the ambush of Bayan Muna (People First) provincial chairman Dr. Constancio Claver and his family two weeks ago. BY ACE ALEGRE...
Facing risks to their personal safety amid the spate of political killings and forcible abductions, and confronting a Department of Justice, which violates the rule of law in order to protect the interests of the administration and prosecute its critics, makes work...
The diminutive dilis (Philippine anchovy) plays a big role in the lives of villagers in Dimasalang town in the island-province of Masbate. Native folks here say it is the only fish variety that can be processed in two ways and is useful, rain or shine. BY DABET...
"Government" here also means ordinary people, not an impersonal bureaucratic state, for indeed Chavez has many times called upon the historically-disenfranchised majority to take power into their own hands. By Delia D. Aguilar Bulatlat.com CARACAS, Venezuela - The...
Only 2 of 6 CAR provinces not bald, environment official says Pine forests in Baguio City and the rest of the Cordillera mountains have thinned at alarming levels as the environment department here rang a bell to everyone to reclaim its lost grandeur. BY ACE ALEGRE...
In the long-drawn war against the Marxist guerrillas where force takes the lead, the country’s security forces have had a reproachable record in human rights threatening even legitimate political dissent, the peaceful advocacy of radical reform and, now, the use of...
NI MARK ANGELES Bulatlat.com Doon po sa Philippines may Mama San na Gloring. Peyborit komoditi mga Bagong Bayani. Primerang isusulong pabrika ng katulong. Skilled workers ay for upgrade to serve global kabarets. Magyaya sa umaga, sa gabi ay maestra. Scrubber ng...
NI MARYJANE ALEJO Bulatlat.com pasan na krus ang pag-aalala sa anak ng isang ina. at sa tuwing may pagkilos sa mendiola, hindi mapigilan ang kabog ng kaba. ilang ina na ba ang nangatog sa takot sa mga balita ng kabi-kabilang pagdukot? ilang ina na ba ang lumuha ng...
“Until sufficient jobs can be created, overseas workers will have to continue risking physical and psychological abuse, and even death, in order to feed their families and ensure them a decent life.” By Aubrey SC Makilan Bulatlat.com As the poorest island in the...
As tribes denounce killings of 72 indigenous peoples What could be the reasons for the Philippine government’s refusal to vote for the adoption of the draft United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples last June? BY JHONG DELA CRUZ Bulatlat.com In...
NI RAUL FUNILAS Bulatlat.com Bayang ginawaran ng banal na halik, Apat na haligi'y hindi matutumba; Naisin man nilang lagim ay ihasik Sa lahat ng sulok at hangad mabura Ay di matutupad. Pagkat nakatitik Na ito sa bato't Banal na Bibliya. (Gulat din ang Hudyong...
President Arroyo may have praised Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan for not backing down on his efforts “to liberate” Central Luzon communities from a “night of terror”, but the military’s counterinsurgency campaign have also spawned a growing number of internal...
2 rights lawyers decry breakdown of law under Arroyo “The poor should have a way to use the justice system for their benefit. The high price of pursuing justice makes the poor choose to evade it.” – FLAG lawyer Jose Manuel Diokno By Jhong dela Cruz Bulatlat.com The...
Central Luzon region is attracting mining investors, with its rich deposits of asphalt, basalt, gold, silver, copper and zinc. Indigenous peoples, however, say the mining explorations are driving them out of their ancestral lands. BY JHONG DELA CRUZ Bulatlat.com...
Bulatlat.com We church leaders, gathered here in Manila, July 12-16, 2006, represent churches throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, and North America. We have been gathered here in prayer and for critical reflection on the way military,...
Extra-judicial killings: 145 a year under GMA, 120 a year under FM Based on data from Karapatan (Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights), the number of victims of extra-judicial killings has reached 725 since 2001, when Arroyo became president through a...
By Flon Faurillo Bulatlat.com Involuntary disappearances, one of the cruelest forms of human rights violations, are becoming a cause for concern under the Arroyo administration. Even the Supreme Court has taken up the issue, in a number of cases ordering the...
Let us zero in specifically on the question of violations of civil and political rights under Mrs. Arroyo's watch. Why is it that we know that this government is not to be believed when it says it will stop political killings? BY CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO...
OFWs, many of them women, are fleeing strife-ridden Mindanao to look for jobs in war-torn Middle East. For salaries that hardly uplift their lives at home, is government exporting OFWs abroad only to be in harm’s way again? BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN Bulatlat.com The...
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