Protecting agrarian beneficiaries through secure land tenure is climate justice, as it recognizes the disproportionate impacts of climate change on these vulnerable groups while also seeking solutions that address its root causes.
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Ailing dev’t worker arrested in Roxas City
The 45-year-old activist, along with Gabriela-Roxas City’s secretary general Marivie Bartolome Arguelles and another individual, was named in a search warrant used by the members of the police to raid their shelter house for women located at Happy Homes Subdivision, Barangay Sibaguan, Roxas City.
‘Not enough,’ groups on UN body’s draft resolution on PH’s human rights
Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay said the lack of substantive action from the proposed resolution might encourage more human rights violations in the country.
UN report reveals rise in reprisals versus rights victims, defenders
“Some of these communications to the UN were thought to be private, exposing the degree of surveillance and cracks in digital security that activists and journalists face,” the report revealed.
Farmers’ houses burned, demolished in Bulacan by company goons
The demolition comes as the latest in a series of operations conducted by Royal Moluccan Realty Holdings, Inc. (RMRHI), beginning in early 2018.
Human rights lawyers to SC: ‘How many more lives, your Honor?’
At least 40 lawyers have been killed under President Duterte alone according to the NUPL.
Caser | Advancing the people’s right to health
Progressive health groups still pin hope on the resumption of the GRP-NDFP peace talks to bring in reforms in health service.
Mary Jane to testify on April 27, nearly 2 years since reprieve
“Finally, after protracted and tedious legal wrangling over quite novel circumstances, Mary Jane will be able to freely tell her whole story and cruel ordeal which will be officially considered by the Philippine trial court.
Mary Jane recruiters to be arraigned for human trafficking on Nov. 11
“Mary Jane keeps on asking why it is taking so long. She asked why government lawyers representing Tintin (Maria Cristina Sergio)’have so many excuses, which has led to the delay of the case proceedings.”
Lumad women | ‘Our place is in the struggle’
This story is one of the three articles in Marching against monsters Read also: Disaster fighter Cristeta Sison Aileen Catamin, defiant vs dams These three Lumad women are among the many who face militarization in their communities as they stand pat against the infringement of foreign companies into their ancestral territories. By DEE AYROSO Bulatlat.com…