“The Honduran government has blood on its hands with the murder of Berta Cáceres.”
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#BigasHindiBala | Foreign lawyers condemn PH gov’t for violating farmers’ rights
“The actions of the Filipino police violate the rights to life and to be free from arbitrary detention enshrined in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; and the right to food guaranteed by the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.”
Barricade | Asserting the people’s rights
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Under a negligent government, legitimate demands will continue to bring people out of their homes and into the danger zone that is the barricade.
Protest camp of banana workers fired at hours after Kidapawan massacre
“The DOLE (Department of Labor and Employment) is sleeping on the case of Musahamat workers and it can no longer pretend that nothing is happening. By being silent, it is being complicit in the apparent campaign to silence the workers in Pantukan by any means possible, including murder.”
#BigasHindiBala | Probe says police destroyed evidence of Kidapawan massacre
A national fact-finding team fear a “whitewash” of the April 1 Kidapawan bloody dispersal of a peasant barricade.
#BigasHindiBala | ‘Police, local officials in Kidapawan criminally liable’ — mission
“It is preposterous that a church compound – a sanctuary for many victims and those seeking the kind intervention of the Church – has been made into a military/police camp since April 1.”
Rice donations pour in for protesting farmers in Kidapawan
“This goes to show how the people can do even more than this regime.”
‘We only want to feed our children’ – North Cotabato farmers
“Hunger. This is what we have been experiencing. I hope our government officials would stop lying.”
Pooled Editorial | Journalists denounce police intimidation and harassment in Kidapawan coverage
AlterMidya, a nationwide network of independent media organizations, denounces police intimidation and attempts to suppress information by preventing journalists from covering the aftermath of the April 1 Kidapawan massacre. The Cotabato police set up a checkpoint outside the Spottswood United Methodist Center where the protesting farmers retreated after Friday’s violent dispersal. Setting up a checkpoint…
Undeclared martial law in Kidapawan? | Rights violations continue to escalate, groups say
“The brazen human rights violation and martial law in North Cotabato is madness in the highest order.”
Impending strike brewing at TV5
“The point of a new CBA is to improve the wages and benefits of employees but it seems the management does not want anything better for us. If the employees are treated well, they would be more productive and the company will also benefit.”