A mining company in Nueva Vizcaya withdrew cases they filed against indigenous people and is set to cease operations in Nueva Vizcaya. In a motion to withdraw complaint filed in Regional Trial Court Branch 37, in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya, the Royalco Philippines Inc. manifested that they are withdrawing their complaints against 10 anti-mining leaders, including […]
Dismayado ang militanteng mga manggagawa sa “kakarampot na dagdag” sa minimum na sahod sa Metro Manila na ipinatupad ng Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). Ayon sa Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU), kulang pa rin ang PhP451 na basic pay sa mga manggagawa sa pribadong sektor, kung ikukumpara ito sa pangangailangan nila at kanilang mga pamilya […]
In light of the pork barrel scandal rocking the country today, Pinoy Weekly launches a series examining the proposed 2014 national budget. Here we look at how pork barrel is maintained, but also how public funds may be misused, misallocated or denied from social services needed by impoverished Filipinos. First in the series: On the […]
Nagsampa ng kaso ang security guard na si Rolly Panesa laban sa mga militar at pulis na ilegal na umaresto, nagkulong at nagtortyur sa kanya, sa loob ng 11-buwang pagkakakulong sa akusasyong lider-rebelde siya. Kasama ng mga abogado mula sa National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL) at grupong pangkarapatang pantao na Karapatan, nagtungo sa Department […]
Families and human rights defenders remembered those who were disappeared for years through poems, songs, dances and other cultural performances in Palma hall of the University of the Philippines-Diliman – the home school of two students Karen Empeno and Sherlyn Cadapan. This was the first time families of desaparecidos commemorated the International Day of the […]
This is the story of Sugar, who has fading memories of his father, Gabriel, and grandfather, Rogelio. Both Gabriel and Rogelio Calubad were abducted by military elements on June 2006. (2011)
Residents of Nueva Vizcaya and indigenous people’s organizations expressed alarm over heavy military presence in their barangays where mining operations exists. They also condemned the alleged abduction of a staunch anti-mining activist in the area. “The people of Nueva Vizcaya have maintained barricade for years to prevent mining operations in their lands, and this resistance […]
Former detainees and victims of the Marcos dictatorship urged the government to immediately implement the Human Rights Victims Reparation and Recognition Act of 2013, as they pay tribute to two anti-dictatorship activists who recently died. The Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (Selda) said the Aquino administration still has to form a claims […]
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), together with the company Filipinas Palm Oil Plantation, Inc. (FPPI) in Agusan del Sur, has developed an Anti-Child Labor Program in response to a study by a labor advocacy group that pointed out, among others, that 24 percent of workers employed in palm oil plantations are minors. But […]
Hindi nagpatinag sa bagyong Labuyo ang mga tumututol sa nakaambang pagtaas ng pamasahe sa Metro Rail Transit/Light Rail Transit (MRT/LRT). Muli silang sumugod sa mga estasyon ng MRT at LRT para hikayatin ang mga komyuter na magprotesta sa planong pagtataas. Sinabi ng grupo na mapipigil lang ang pagtaas sa pamamagitan ng protesta. Ayon sa grupo, […]
