Anne Marxze D. Umil was Bulatlat’s first intern turned into its investigative reporter. She takes most things seriously, except praises about her. Sometimes, she cracks jokes that make everyone in the newsroom giggly.
Anne Marxze D. Umil was Bulatlat’s first intern turned into its investigative reporter. She takes most things seriously, except praises about her. Sometimes, she cracks jokes that make everyone in the newsroom giggly.
“Police personnel from Pinukpuk entered our home without any consent or permission. Many of them went inside our house. Some wore masks. Some wore bonnets like thieves. Is that how the police behave?”
It has been five months since the flood-control scam was exposed, and more than 30 legislators have been identified by the Office of the Ombudsman as being involved in the anomalies, yet not one of them has even been brought to trial.
Capitalist countries continue to dodge their responsibility for the climate crisis, refusing to pay up while pushing market schemes that allow them to keep polluting.
COP30 is now in its second week, and climate activists are sounding the alarm over the growing number of fossil fuel lobbyists attending the negotiations.
Health systems are challenged to deliver universal health coverage even at current levels of warming, with the majority of countries (108/194) experiencing worsening or no significant improvement in service coverage since the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015.
“What we have been calling for, as part of the Palestinian movement for more than 20 years, is to hold Israel — and all those who support it — accountable for the crimes being committed."
It will promise bold action and demand reparations and climate finance from the Global North while boasting about its role as board chair on loss and damage. Beneath this spectacle, the government glaringly tramples climate justice at home
“This is not a local dispute; this is part of a global system of land grabbing and corporate greed protected by repressive government and financed by foreign capital, including British capital,”
“There is no law that compels disclosure of the names of participants or delegates, especially in advocacy, humanitarian, or mission-related activities."
“What else can we expect from a Senate that includes the likes of Ronald ‘Bato’ Dela Rosa and Bong Go, who were Duterte’s lieutenants in his bloody drug war?"
"There is no other credible evidence of the abuse, torture and cruelty that the arrested individuals suffered in the hands of the PNP than their very own testimonies and that of their families and lawyers."
Despite being cleared of all charges, she remained a target of state suppression.
Karapatan said the police’s conduct against the young protesters can be likened to the kind of disproportionate and excessive force employed by Marcos Sr. in quelling street protests during martial law.
"We are inspired by the creative activism of the youth who led their delegations from various schools and communities. We marched with flood victims, the urban poor, farmers, workers, and ordinary Filipinos who are united in condemning the entrenched corruption in the bureaucracy."
“It so happens that the case against me is BP 880 issued during the Marcos Sr. era. This makes it clear that Marcos Jr is continuing the legacy of plunder and fascism of his father."
The Philippines is still the most dangerous in Asia, with eight reported killings and disappearances, not counting additional suspected attacks that go unreported.
“Not one of them, students, activists, rights defenders, currently detained political prisoners, deserve these violations to their life, safety and security."
Three years into the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the human rights situation in the Philippines is still bad.
In a statement, Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay said that the bill is “thoroughly self-serving and is a slap in the face of the tens of thousands of victims of Duterte's drug war as well as those who suffered other injustices committed under his regime.”
Joanna Concepcion, chairperson of Migrante International, said that the Filipino trafficking victims in Cambodia were able to come home because of the persistent efforts and constant follow-ups of their families with various government agencies. Concepcion criticized the government’s process of providing assistance to the victims and how it delayed their return to the Philippines.
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