On the heels of impeachment filing against Vice President Sara Duterte and the quad-comm House hearings on the war on drugs and POGO, an ethics complaint was filed against a House member who played a key role in the hearings, ACT Teachers Representative France Castro.
A veteran human rights lawyer from Surigao del Sur was among the three lawyers honored recently by the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) for its first Human Rights Awards.
The children of the journalists slain in the Ampatuan massacre in 2009 grew up without knowing their parents who perished in the most journalist murder 15 years ago, as they battled their own struggles being raised by a single parent.
Families of the Ampatuan Massacre victims joined by journalists went on their annual visit to the shrine in Barangay Salman, Ampatuan in Maguindanao ahead of the 15th anniversary, but were taken aback at how the site was left neglected.
Duterte raised this dare at the start of the November 13 House quad committee hearing on extrajudicial killings and human rights violations committed under his presidency and his mayoral terms in Davao City.
Christopher Ryan Maboloc, a philosophy professor of Ateneo de Davao University, and author of “Radical Democracy in the Time of Duterte”, posted this reaction last October 29 about the Senate blue ribbon sub-committee hearing: “Senator Risa Hontiveros achieved nothing yesterday.”
Human rights lawyers in Mindanao criticized former President Rodrigo Duterte for his statements made during the Senate hearing as he justified the extrajudicial killings in his war on drugs campaign.
“When our schools were closed in November 2018, the military threatened our lives. They said that if we don’t leave our school, they would kill a teacher or a student,” a Lumad youth said during the launch of Defend Talaingod 13, October 17.
A female broadcaster was killed in Zamboanga City on Tuesday night, October 22, the National Union of Journalists (NUJP) said in an alert.
While the military announced that Arbitrario was killed in an encounter with troops, the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) claimed Arbitrario was earlier captured, tortured then shot dead.
