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Inmates, corrections guards, and advocates tell VICE World News that they’re extremely worried at the rapidly deteriorating situation.
Read moreCredit to Author: acerojano| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 13:23:56 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Tuesday revealed that the National Bureau Investigation (NBI) would also investigate the alleged failure of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) to remit proper government shares from its small-town lottery (STL) operations. This came after President Rodrigo Duterte ordered all gaming activities of PCSO, including lotto and […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: acerojano| Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 13:26:01 +0000
Several human rights groups on Monday filed a petition for review before the Supreme Court (SC) over the decision of the Court of Appeals (CA) to dismiss for their petition for writs of amparo and habeas data for the protection of their members.
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Credit to Author: Shayla Love| Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 13:29:07 +0000
Rising sea levels could be an opportunity for social change—or a dystopian hellscape.
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Credit to Author: racosta| Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 07:42:27 +0000
The Manila City Council on Thursday (June 27) passed a resolution endorsing the appointment of Court of Appeals (CA) Associate Justice Jhosen Lopez as a Supreme Court associate justice.
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Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 02:29:55 +0000
Around 5,000 activists from Bicol were expected to join the protest rally and caravan in Naga City on Wednesday morning, to seek justice for the killings of current and former members of a human rights group and a militant group in the region.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2019 02:58:38 +0000
In observance of Eid’l Fitr, senators are wishing for peace and justice for the Muslim communities especially in Mindanao.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 01 May 2019 11:38:38 +0000
BACOLOD CITY – Help the poor, the landless and the homeless.This was the message conveyed by San Carlos Bishop Gerardo Alminaza as Filipinos marked Labor Day and the feast of St. Joseph the Worker on Wednesday.
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Credit to Author: cmiranda| Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 08:18:00 +0000
BORACAY ISLAND, AKLAN — San Carlos Bishop Gerardo Alminaza has called slain human rights activist and Escalante City councilor Bernardino ‘Toto’ Patigas Sr. “a martyr of the sugar workers’ struggles in the island of Negros.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 16:07:29 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – Topher, 16, once left his home to escape his family’s abusive hands.For three weeks, he sought refuge in the rough streets of Parañaque City, begging for alms just to survive.“Naranasan ko rin ‘yung magpakalat-kalat sa kalye, ‘yung namamalimos,” Topher told INQUIRER.net in an interview.Topher is what the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child would call a “child in street situations,” or simply put, a street child.
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