By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Another health worker has been charged with rebellion and accused of being a member of the New People’s Army (NPA). A week before eight of the 43 health workers collectively known as the Morong 43 filed a case against former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for the torture and [...]

By RONALYN V. OLEA
“We know that our enemies are human rights violators who respect no one but it is important to file the case if only to show that the government is violating its own laws.” – Morong 43

By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Lawyers of health workers who filed a damage suit against former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and several military and police officials lambasted the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and Philippine National Police (PNP) for withholding information about the respondents. The P15-million ($365 thousand) damage suit was filed, on [...]

By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“Sins against Filipino women are being committed on a daily basis.”

By RONALYN V. OLEA
“The culture of impunity in the Philippines must end. Extra-judicial killings of respected pastors and church leaders, most of whom were speaking against injustice in our country, show how horrible and unacceptable the human rights situation in our nation has been.” – UCCP Bishop Reuel Norman Marigza

By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Health workers who sued former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for human rights violations are dismayed at what they described as the slow pace of the local court handling the case. Six of the Morong 43, or the 43 health workers arrested on February 6, 2010 and detained for ten [...]

By RONALYN V. OLEA
At least five causes of action are being sought by the health workers against the former president and her officials involved in the case.

By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Remember Jovito Palparan Jr., the notorious Philippine Army officer tagged by militant political activists as “The Butcher”? In 2007 the Melo Commission recommended Palparan’s investigation for extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, and other human rights violations. Instead, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo personally presented him as a [...]

Press Release: 14 April, 2011 Pursuing their campaign to defend Cordillera health workers as part of their continuing assertion of the people’s right to health, CHESTCORE in partnership with the UP Student Council and UP Kasarian Gender Studies Program held a forum entitled “Stop the Harassment of Cordillera Health Workers!” last April 14, 2011 at [...]

By RONALYN V. OLEA
“We have decided to file for moral and exemplary damages against former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her security officials for violation of our rights. This is but a small step to end impunity in our country. Yet, this a step forward in our long march for justice,” Gary Liberal, spokesman of the Morong 43, said.

By LYN V. RAMO
Why, they asked, are they being made to suffer human rights violations, when they have only been working for the indigenous farmers, laborers, small-scale miners and urban poor and, in the process, traveling long hours to reach far-flung villages, some of which could only be reached on foot?