Armed state forces relentlessly spread violence against the people who stand for their rights. Artillery shelling. From late at night on September 9 until the morning of September 10, the 203rd IBde strafed and fired artillery in Sitio Tugas and nearby communities in Barangay San Vicente, Roxas, Oriental Mindoro. The strafing and shelling targeted not […]

  Groups form Manindigan Network. Religious leaders, church people, human rights groups, and others came together to form the Manindigan Network, an alliance that vow to stand against violations of human rights and international humanitarian law under the Marcos regime, on September 6 at the Shalom Center in Manila. On September 12, Manindigan-Central Luzon was […]

Tobacco farmers in Ilocos provinces relaunched the campaign to raise the farmgate prices of tobacco to a minimum of ₱128 per kilo. The current farmgate price remains pegged at around ₱97 per kilo, at times plunging to ₱50, depending on classification and quality. Every two years, the “tripartite talks,” supervised by the National Tobacco Administration […]

Recent months have revealed heinous cases of human trafficking of Filipinos forced into “scam hubs” in Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar. According to state data, at least 695 Filipinos have been rescued this year from these countries. Scam hub trafficking is a type of trafficking or illegal recruitment for exploitation, where victims deceived by fake […]