The New People’s Army (NPA) units in Negros island mounted a series of tactical offensives over the past two weeks targetting the most notorious military and police units. The NPA-Central Negros fired at a police station in Sitio Parkingan, Trinidad, Guihulngan City on November 1. Two policemen were reported injured. On the same day, NPA […]

  Doctor, not police. On October 23, health workers protested the appointment of former police chief Camilo Cascolan as Undersecretary of the Department of Health (DOH). They called it out-and-out militarization of health services. Abolish the NCIP! Different organizations of national minorities trooped to the office of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) in […]

Four unions staged protests and collective actions this week to advance their rights to collective bargaining and demand a fair increase in wages. In Quezon City, Kowloon House restaurant workers staged a protest action during their lunchbreak on November 3. They demanded the company to comply with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) order […]

Farmers’ staged a series of protest actions to mark the Peasant Month last October. They joined the 14th International Day of Rural Women on October 15 and the 43rd World Food Day on October 17, also called “World Hunger Day.” On both occasions, they went to the Department of Agriculture (DA) in Quezon City and […]

Successive incidents of bombing, illegal searches and encampment in village centers are some of the severe violations of human rights perpetrated by military forces in Negros over the past weeks. Himamaylan City. Elements of the 94th IB ransacked homes and intimidated residents of Barangay Buenavista. At 4 a.m. on October 27, soldiers forcibly entered the […]