By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
A fact finding mission confirmed suspicions that four-year-old Rodelyn was killed by an explosion caused by an M203 grenade, belying claims of the military that an improvised explosive device from the NPA was the cause.
By INA ALLECO SILVERIO Bulatlat.com Batangas - The Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) is crying foul against what it said was an act of serious environmental destruction on the part of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). The...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com Manila - A lawmaker and a labor center are protesting against the Department of Labor and Employment's (DOLE) call to licensed nurses, nursing graduates, and other jobseekers with healthcare backgrounds to consider the array...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com Manila -- If President Benigno Aquino III has a list proving that he has not been "noynoying" or being idle and lazy in Malacanang as what progressive peoples' organizations have been asserting, the alliance of migrant...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com Manila--The peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) and the Kaisahang Pambansa ng mga Magsasaka sa Koprahan (Koprahan) have called attention to the Aquino administration's formation of a coco levy task force that...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
The two children were playing inside their house when an M203 grenade hit their house killing Rhodelyn instantly.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
As village chief, Jimmy Liguyon had consistently rebuffed agreements with mining firms, blocking their operation on ancestral lands of indigenous peoples and making him a target of paramilitary groups and the Philippine Army's 8th Infantry Battalion.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Residents of Iligan City got no help from local and national government. Where did the hundreds of millions of pesos in donations received by the city government and the Dept. of Social Welfare & Development go?
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com The children's welfare advocacy and party-list group Akap-Bata recently called on the Benigno Aquino III administration to enforce Republic Act 9775 or the Anti-Child Pornography Act of 2009. It also aired its dismay over what...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com The Aquino government has closed the case over the much-disputed, multi-billion coco levy fund issue involving the former crony of the late dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos and uncle of the current president San Miguel Corporation...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“Sins against Filipino women are being committed on a daily basis.”
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“We expected the Philippines, as chair of the Committee on Domestic Workers that deliberated on the text of the convention with recommendations, to be the first or one of the first to ratify the convention but so far, it seems that it is not in the list of President Aquino’s priorities.” – Filipino Migrant Workers’ Union
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- An organization of overseas Filipino workers today expressed deep concern over plans of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to close down at least 12 Philippine posts abroad by the end of 2012 saying that it...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"The government wants to project itself as compassionate and humane because it provides these relocation sites, but it will not admit that there are so many things that are wrong in these sites and people do not benefit from being forced to live there." – Gabriela Women's Party
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Some 300 members of groups opposed to irresponsible mining, and residents from various provinces in Northern Luzon, held a rally in front of the offices of well-known mining corporations in Manila earlier this week...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“These recent attacks on campus journalists show that the Aquino administration is insincere in ending the culture of impunity.” – College Editors Guild of the Philippines
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The fisherfolk alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) recently protested against reports that President Benigno Aquino III’s public-private partnership (PPP) schemes have...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- An organization upholding the welfare of the country’s fisherfolk is taking oil company Chevron Philippines Inc. to task for an oil spill that has affected the livelihood of fishermen in Sitio Tawi-tawi, San Fernando...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“In addition to the general effects of natural disasters and lack of health care, women are vulnerable to reproductive and sexual health problems, and increased rates of sexual and domestic violence.”
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) is outraged against what it described as the United State government’s attempts to blackmail the Philippines. The US is standing against the petition of the Philippines to...
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