Don’t insist on low poverty threshold, address jobs crisis, gov’t told
The Php575.18 average daily basic pay of wage and salary workers in January 2018 is not even enough at 60% of the estimated Php955 National Capital Region family living wage.
‘Shooting of female guerrilla fighter in vagina proves Duterte’s anti-women remarks not joke, sarcasm’
Not too long ago, President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the shooting of female armed guerrilla fighters in their vaginas to render them “useless.” He later defended his remark – one of the many he issued against women – as mere sarcasm.
BPO workers reveal companies refused to evacuate during Monday’s quake
“We are shocked and appalled upon receiving reports from BPO workers themselves that their companies did not evacuate them during the earthquake,” BIEN said.
Kin of journalists slain in Ampatuan massacre demand end to intrigues, urge unity
In the aftermath of the massacre, many promises of help were made. In fact, not just by government but even by other media groups. However, because the masterminds who planned and led in carrying out the massacre were government officials and agents, we feel it is the State that carries the primary responsibility of providing assistance to us and explaining why this has not been forthcoming, after a decade.
Political detainee dies in Batangas, 4th under Duterte
Romeroso, a father of a baby girl, was first arrested in 2010 as among the health workers known as the Morong 43.
Frank Fernandez and company transferred to civilian jail
Aside from its repeated refusal to allow PILC lawyers to visit the three, the Philippine Army also deliberately ignored an April 3 Commitment Order by the Branch 33 of the Sta. Cruz Court to transfer Fernandez, Lagtapon and Perez to a civilian jail facility.
‘Magic matrix’
Last April 16 in Tuguegarao City, Duterte said intelligence reports have been fed to him from “foreign” sources about the supposed coordinated media plot to discredit him. Panelo admitted that the President himself ordered him to release the matrix in a Malacañan press conference Monday, April 22.
Lawyers: Duterte a disgrace to the legal profession
“He is a big disappointment to the legal profession as he has abandoned all legal tenets,” NUPL chairperson and senatorial aspirant Neri Colmenares said.
Death threat vs activists sent to Bayan-Negros leader after Patigas murder
By Visayas Today The secretary general of the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan-Negros received a death threat directed against him and other activist leaders just hours after Escalante City Councilor Bernardino “Toto” Patigas was murdered. Mike dela Concepcion said a series of text messages was sent to his phone from the number +639999019988 just before 8 p.m. […]
State forces disrupt psycho-social activity for Canlaon church workers
While the activity was going on, he said, state security forces “in full combat gear” arrived at the church, saying they were there to “observe” what was going on but later “asking for the names of the participants and wanting to take their photos.”