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Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Letter to the Editor

Affront to indigenous knowledge and culture

INDIGENOUS knowledge is a result of indigenous peoples’ interrelationship with their territories and resources and a product of thousands of years of collective innovation adapted to...

Offensive to honor and virtue

I WRITE on behalf of my client, Mr. Ernesto Eco of Supa, San Jose, Antique, anent his complaint about what you published in an article entitled...

Take genuine steps towards addressing the violence

THE Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) and Front Line Defenders strongly condemn the unabated killings and violence against activists, human rights defenders, and...

Stop discriminating ACT members in election service

OVER THE LAST few weeks, teacher-unionists under the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) have reported alarming cases of disinformation in various regions, where some...

Catriona Gray standing with Filipino children

SALINLAHI Alliance for Children’s Concerns commends Miss Universe 2019 Catriona Gray’s statement against the lowering of minimum age of criminal responsibility. Catriona Gray’s statement against...

Teachers’ defense vs state attacks

THE Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT), in partnership with Education International, launches Teachers’ CHALK, a teacher' defense system against state attacks. Teachers’ CHALK or Complaint...

Intensifying repression

THE ALLIANCE of Concerned Teachers Philippines (ACT Philippines) condemns in the strongest terms the recent arrest of internationally known journalist and Duterte administration critic...

Universal healthcare

THIS REFERS to Mr. Ike Señeres’ column “Reinventing universal healthcare” which came out in Panay News on Jan. 18, 2019.   Allow us to address...

Oppressive immigration laws as tools for rights violations

THE NATIONAL Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) condemns the violations authored by the Bureau of Immigration (BI) and the National Intelligence Coordinating Authority (NICA)...

Cha-cha, TRAIN will worsen hunger, poverty

NATIONAL labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) denounces President Rodrigo Duterte’s endorsement of the passage of the second package of the Tax Reform for...