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Sister Pat Fox (left) shares a light moment with children of sitio San Roque, Quezon City after a violent dispersal of urban poor homes in 2014. (Bulatlat File Photo by RVO)

Aussie nun to Duterte: He will have his day in court

Australian missionary nun Sr. Patricia Anne Fox remains resolute in the face of an Immigration order denying her visa extension application and requiring her to leave before Nov. 4.

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Read more about the article Is ‘drug war’ being used vs. urban poor dwellers facing demolition?
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Is ‘drug war’ being used vs. urban poor dwellers facing demolition?

Maria Roselle Locsin, 37, was watching television in their home on Oct. 7 in Sitio San Roque in Quezon City, along with her husband Bernie Tupaz and 10-year-old daughter, when armed men in plainclothes barged into their home.

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Read more about the article Fighting off hunger, thousands launch collective farming
Negros agricultural workers cultivate the land by feet in one of their bungkalan areas. (Photo courtesy of Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas)

Fighting off hunger, thousands launch collective farming

Eden Gualberto practically raised her three children through farming. She earns P1,000 a week from selling banana, cassava and vegetables.

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Read more about the article ‘PH gov’t election to UN rights body does not absolve Duterte of accountability for rights abuses’
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‘PH gov’t election to UN rights body does not absolve Duterte of accountability for rights abuses’

A human rights organization said the recent election of the Philippine government to the United Nations Human Rights Council does not in any way absolve President Rodrigo Duterte of gross human rights violations amid claims that it goes to show how human rights is respected here.

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