By MARYA SALAMAT
Forming his team to set the direction of change or political payback? So far, except for Justice Sec. Leila de Lima, the Cabinet of Pres. Benigno Aquino III is a mixture of key figures in his campaign, representatives of big business, and old hands of the former Arroyo administration.
Media Release 21 March 2010 Free the 43 Health Workers alliance today condemned the brazenness of the Armed Forces of the Philippines including their Commander in Chief, Philippine National Police, and the Department of Justice in their deliberate actions to disregard the Commission of Human Rights’ (CHR) Constitutional mandate. Despite an order issued by the…
BY Bulatlat.com August 11, 2008 – 1:17 p.m. Hundreds of peasants from Laguna, Cavite and Batangas provinces trooped to and banged the gates of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to demand the immediate release of Randall Echanis, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP-National Peasant Movement) national deputy secretary general for external affairs. Echanis, 60, was abducted…
She bore him for nine months in her womb. But Casimira Roluna, 78 years old, a resident of Brgy. Cabungaan, Baybay, Leyte, has not seen her son for nine months now. Her only proof of life was the news she heard over the radio last March 7, 2006 that her son, Glecerio Roluna, 48, is…
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is being asked to explain reports of summary executions of a number of suspected communist leaders and guerrillas. The demand has been raised for possible violations of international humanitarian law and protocols of war. BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Bulatlat In three separate incidents in the last three weeks, a…
The impending implementation of the National ID System after a Supreme Court ruling upholding its constitutionality will be a major setback for civil liberties according Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) secretary general Renato M. Reyes, Jr, one of the petitioners in the Supreme Court case. “In a time when civil liberties are already bludgeoned by so…