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, by SANTOS Soliman, Jr
In a masterful analysis that challenges both state overreach and revolutionary romanticism, Soliman Santos offers a nuanced examination of red-tagging that speaks directly to feminists and leftists struggling to build genuine democratic spaces in the Philippines. By carefully dissecting recent (…)
, by SMITH Tom
The Philippines is recovering from six destructive typhoons in the past month. But its leaders are busily fighting among themselves.
Family feud: cutouts of Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos and Sara Duterte displayed during a protest in Manila, July 2024. EPA-EFE/Rolex dela Pena
Politics in the (…)
, by SANTOS Soliman, Jr
In this thought-provoking article, human rights lawyer and retired judge Soliman M. Santos Jr. makes a compelling case for a united, domestic effort to bring former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte and his enablers to justice for the brutal “drug war” that claimed thousands of lives. Santos (…)
, by DAVID Randy
In sociology, corruption has a straightforward definition. When it involves government officials and employees, corruption simply means the failure to distinguish between the interests of the government and those of other entities in society, such as family, private businesses, religious (…)
, by DAVID Randy
Despite an onslaught of typhoons relentlessly battering the country over the past week, the headline-grabber was former president Rodrigo Duterte’s dramatic appearance before the House of Representatives’ powerful quad committee. This super committee has been digging into a host of contentious (…)
, by AMSTRONG Kathryn
A super typhoon has made second landfall on the Philippines’ main island of Luzon, with forecasters warning of “life-threatening storm surge”, heavy rains and severe winds.
Video: Super typhoon Man-Yi makes landfall on Philippines main islandWeather worsens in Philippines as Super Typhoon (…)
, by DAVID Randy
“What prompted Duterte to appear before the Senate and engage in what may, at first glance, look like a self-sabotaging performance? My brief answer: He is fighting a crucial political battle that his daughter, Vice President Sara Duterte, is losing. The vice presidency remains her last (…)
, by CAMOTE Bay Remo
October in the Philippines is known to be Indigenous People’s Month. So, you can witness various festive events celebrating the cultures, traditions, heritage and triumphs of more than a hundred ethnic identities in the country led mostly by the National Commission on Indigenous People’s (NCIP). (…)
, by Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA)
The Manobo-Pulangiyon (MP) Indigenous Cultural Community (ICC), with around 1,490 family members, has endured over a century of land grabbing, beginning in the early 1900s when the Manolo Fortich family seized their ancestral lands, later transferring use to Kiantig Development Corporation (…)
, by CAMOTE Bay Remo
Heard of Palestine genocide? Myanmar military rule? Victims of peace and war NMIPs [Non-Moro Indigenous Peoples] in Philippines? What can be done?
Genocide in Palestine continues and the world powers interests played big role why it expands beyond control.
As occupation and unrecognition of (…)
I was recently invited by a student organization at the University of the Philippines to speak to them about my martial-law experience, given that I had been a student activist in UP during what we called the First Quarter Storm, had been imprisoned and had, against all odds, survived into a (…)
, by DAVID Randy
When, against all expectations, Rodrigo Duterte won the presidential elections in 2016, people wondered how long the former Davao mayor could maintain the sudden surge in popularity that had propelled him to the nation’s highest office.
His parochial experience as the autocratic political (…)
, by Human Rights, Peace and Social movements
The bells for justice have been ringing for years and have been ringing until today. The tri-people grassroots communities have aired in different venue and platforms the sad and challenging plight of the Non-Moro Indigenous Peoples (NMIP) in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (…)
, by ESGUERRA Yolanda R.
How might we transform our legal system to recognize Nature not just as a resource, but as a living entity with its own rights and interests?
This past month, Karibu partner “The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature” (GARN) organized the 6th “International Rights of Nature Tribunal” during (…)
, by SANTOS Soliman, Jr
With due respect, the September 9, 2024 Supreme Court (SC) unanimous Decision in Province of Sulu, et al. vs. Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdia, et al.takes away, with one hand, Sulu from the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) what it gives with the other hand, (…)
, by SANTOS Soliman, Jr
Ten years hence the September 9 to 28, 2013 Zamboanga Siege, the questions of justice and peace arising from and around it continue without both aspirations being fully or even satisfactorily achieved. On top of this, history of the Mindanao conflict seems to keep repeating itself, as if the key (…)
, by SANTOS Soliman, Jr
Overdue more than nine months after the breakthrough Oslo Joint Statement of 23 November 2023 between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) [led by the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and New People’s Army (…)
, by HELLER Isaak
In 2018, the passage of the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) was a major milestone for peace building efforts in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). The BOL institutionalized Bangsamoro autonomy by creating the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) as BARMM’s interim (…)
, by SMEDLEY Agnes
Agnes Smedley with three vignettes of political life in the Philippines, including a visit to a Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas rally addressed by Crisanto Evangelista.
Cognao And Revolution —
Four of us sat in a Chinese restaurant in Manila, a Filipino newspaper man, a Chinese physician, an (…)
, by ESQUIRE PHILIPPINES
Workers in the Philippines work an average of 40.63 hours per week and are only paid an abysmal wage of $1.45 per hour.
It’s probably safe to say that Filipino work culture doesn’t really encourage work-life balance. If we still have doubts about this, a recent survey by the global human (…)
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