Walang makabuluhang taas sahod na natanggap ang mga mga manggagawa sa nakalipas na mga administrasyon habang patuloy naman na tumataas ang presyo ng mga bilihin maging ang ilang serbisyo. Napapanahon ngayon ang manawagan sa gobyerno para sa makabuluhan at nakabubuhay na sahod dahil hindi na talaga kaya ng ordinaryong Pilipino ang napakataas na bilihin at […]
Palabay said these must include invitations to special rapporteurs on human rights defenders, indigenous peoples, independence of lawyers and judges, and right to health to allow them to conduct official investigations on other human rights violations in the country.
“In my last visit to Barangay Saad, the elder held my hand and begged me: ‘Tell the whole world of what we suffer and our dreams of a better life. We hope the persecution of us Lumads would stop,’” the bishop recalls.
Umabot sa higit 160,000 pamilya at nasa higit 600,000 indibidwal ang naitalang na-apektuhan sa pananalasa ng bagyong Paeng sa isla ng Panay noong Sabado, Oktubre 29.
“The State has long utilized this scheme, arbitrarily filing trumped-up charges against activists then illegally arresting and detaining them,” KMU said.
“Marcos’s group of advisers obviously have business and profit as their top priorities. Farmers and food producers on the other hand, are proposing concrete and actionable measures on how to boost local food production, how to genuinely develop the agriculture sector, and protect farmers and consumers alike from inflation shocks. [We need] to genuinely strengthen agriculture and fight hunger, Marcos Jr. should heed the demands of farmers, fisherfolk and food producers,” pagtatapos ng KMP sa kanilang pahayag.
KMP said that the rice liberalization law that Senator Villar principally authored and enacted in 2019 led to heavy income losses for rice farmers amounting to P206 billion in the past three years.
Mabasa’s family said that while they would like to thank the PNP, they hope the development would lead to the identification, arrest and prosecution of the mastermind.
Raymundo Buenfuerza, NPA Bicol spokesperson, said their recent successes in Albay is a slap on both the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police that claim counter-insurgency programs have weakened the rebel army in the region.
“His remarks, while a brazen official admission of the practice, do not only encourage and normalize red-tagging but also brandish it as an institutionalized and orchestrated method of the government in dealing with perceived political critics,” Philippine UPR Watch said.