Church people and youth held a prayer-protest action on December 14 in solidarity with the displaced families of Marawi City who have yet to return to their city. They called for the immediate return of 5,000 families who will face eviction from their temporary shelters by the end of the year. The land where they […]

Human trafficking victim Mary Jane Veloso has returned to the Philippines after nearly 15 years of detention in Indonesia. She was welcomed by her children, parents, lawyer, and supporters from Migrante Philippines and the Save Mary Jane Task Force at the airport in the early morning hours of December 18. She was allowed to hug […]

Journalist Alfonso Tomas “Atom” Araullo has won a civil case against National Task Force-Elcac officials Lorraine Badoy-Partosa and Jeffrey Celiz for their Red-tagging. Badoy and Celiz were ordered to pay a total of ₱2.08 million in damages for the harm they caused Araullo. Lawyers from the Movement Against Disinformation represented him in court. Araullo filed […]

After 13 hearings, the Quad Committee of Congress recommended on December 18 the filing of criminal charges against former president Rodrigo Duterte and his cohorts for committing widespread extrajudicial killings under his administration’s bogus war on drugs. This case is similar to that filed by the families of drug war victims at the International Criminal […]