By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Aside from coming out with its program of action for the protection of children, the National Democratic Front of the Philippines announced that it will establish a Special Office for the Protection of Children to strengthen its mechanisms on monitoring and defending the rights of Filipino children.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
After losing a Supreme Court battle to block the implementation of the Milk Code in 2007, multinational formula milk companies are now lobbying Congress to reverse the gains in promoting breastfeeding and restrict formula milk advertising.
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Milk-letting activity highlight campaign against amendments to Milk Code
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Migrante International's chapter in the Middle East is demanding to know why no one is heading the Department of Foreign Affairs' (DFA) Migrant Workers Affairs division. Migrante-ME said no one has yet replaced...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Just when Interaksyon.com published an interview with the late former archbishop of Milan and papal candidate Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini who said that the Catholic Church was "200 years out of date," De La Salle...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
The Lumad families left their community and set up a protest camp in Bukidnon after their village leader Jimmy Liguyon was killed by Alde "Butchoy" Salusad of the New Indigenous Peoples’ Army Reform (NIPAR) and his father, Nonong Salusad, a member of the Civilian Armed Forces Geographic Unit (CAFGU). But paramilitary forces continue to attack them with impunity.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) are at it again. According to the Katribu Indigenous Peoples’ Partylist, the AFP is directly behind a criminalization and vilification campaign against its national...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
At present, the ancestral domain of the Subanen's in Bayog has eight mining permit applications, three approved Mineral Production Sharing Agreements (MPSA), one approved Exploration Permit and numerous illegal small-scale mining operations.
Read also: Antonio Zumel @ 80, He never wrote 30 Saluting a great revolutionary, writer and editor Antonio Zumel By Ina Alleco Silverio Bulatlat.com MANILA -- All writers including journalists are said to have influences. Some writers are inspired by novelists who...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The Aquino administration, like its predecessors, has no right to organize so-called workers and employee policy meetings and project itself as pro-union when it quite clearly isn't. This was the declaration of...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Already under fire for alleged plagiarism for his speech attacking the Reproductive Health (RH) bill, senator and actor Tito Sotto is now the target of criticism from the country's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is again going after a journalist who is merely doing his job. This is the charge of the regional farmers' group Alyansa ng mga Magbubukid sa Gitnang Luson (Amgl, Farmers'...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) in Southern Mindanao Region is not sending off fireworks anytime soon to welcome the advent of public-private partnership schemes in Davao City. On August 24, the City Council...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"Even as we seek redress for the wrongs that she [Helen Gayta Carumba] has suffered in the hands of the Taiwanese government, we also understand the urgency of facilitating her early release and repatriation to the Philippines. Any amount that you are able to provide will be a moral contribution to Helen’s human rights, as well as those of other, similarly-situated migrant workers." – APMM
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"The question is, what has the government – this government and its predecessors – done to ensure that the damage wrought by natural phenomenon does not reach levels of extreme devastation?"
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"We will defend our houses, we will defend our rights. We have as much right to live in Makati as the rich folk here."
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Lawamaker and lawyer Neri Javier Colmenares of Bayan Muna party is calling for the deferral of the Department of National Defense (DND) modernization budget. He said the DND's budget should be deferred because of the...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Asmayra Usman and her parents were sleeping inside their tent in the Mahad Nurul Ittihad Evacuation Center in Salbo, Datu Saudi Ampatuan, Maguindanao when members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) encamped in Bagan village, Guindulungan allegedly fired their guns in the direction of the evacuation center.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"As it turned out, the price freeze was just meant to temper public outrage over the shameless greed displayed by oil firms after hiking petroleum prices during the height of the flooding and devastation brought by the monsoon rains. In the end, oil firms simply could not moderate their greed." – CAOPI
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com As children, we are allowed to watch tv programs where the good guys always triumph and the villains get their comeuppance — the naughty little boy who stole cookies and then lied about it afterwards gets caught by a good...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
A storm has been brewing, not only within the Philippine area of responsibility but within weather bureau Pagasa itself.
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