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"Unlike industrial polluters and corrupt politicians, the Greenpeace activists inflicted no harm to the planet, people, and wildlife with their peaceful, non-violent action.”
Respondents in the complaint “were not identified to have personally attacked the complainants and there is no evidence showing that force employed, if there was any, by any respondent is of a serious character.”
Human rights defenders are understandably disappointed with the Nov. 13-14 31st ASEAN Summit. Not only were human rights the least of the concerns of the leaders of the member-countries of the Association, it also seemed as if they had come to the Philippines with...
“Let me state it publicly here and now, wala akong problema sa America (I have no problem with America)… We remain to be the best of friends with America.” That’s what President Duterte said a day before flying to Vietnam Wednesday for his first face-to-face...
The series of protests dubbed "Ban Trump" are captured in pictures.
Among those arrested is a nursing mother who was tending to her two-month-old baby in a hospital when arrested in Oriental Mindoro.
Aside from water cannons, police now also use sonic device against protesters.
"The Asean summit offers nothing but imperialist or neoliberal programs and policies that will put poor Filipinos into a much deeper poverty and misery.”
Progressives hold protests in time for the arrival of the POTUS.
By BULATLAT MANILA – Various sectoral groups staged a protest near the US embassy here on Nov. 10, the second day in a row, in anticipation of the first visit by US President Donald Trump in time for the Asean summit on Nov. 12. Hundreds of anti-riot police men...
Women activists protest US President Donald Trump’s visit.
It’s the storm of protests against ASEAN and Con-Ass and not Typhoon Seniang that led to the postponement of the summit, cause-oriented groups in Cebu say. By Emily Vital Bulatlat CEBU CITY – Organizers of counter-ASEAN conferences here believe that the real reason...
Notwithstanding efforts of the Arroyo administration to bar the top party-list group from winning in the upcoming polls, Bayan Muna (People First) received a Special Mayor’s Award during the Queen City’s 70th Charter Day celebration last week. BY KAREN S. PAPELLERO...
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