For 10th straight year, Philippines remains Asia s deadliest place to defend the environment philstar.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from philstar.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
'Even though environmental issues are included in formal institutional discussions, there is little to no mention and recognition of the condition of the people who continuously fight for environmental protection'
Twenty-five of the 37 petitioners against the Anti-Terrorism Act yesterday filed their motion for reconsideration before the Supreme Court and reiterated their appeal to declare the law as unconstitutional.
OPPOSITORS of Republic Act 1479 or the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) asked the Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday to reconsider its decision which declared most of its provisions “not unconstitutional,” insisting that the law should be struck down entirely for being unconstitutional. Out of the 37 groups of petitioners who originally…
May 20, 2021 A NON-GOVERNMENT organization (NGO) is calling anew for the abolition of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac) after its spokesperson Lorraine Badoy launches another threat to pursue the case against Bakwit School 7, whose charges were recently dismissed.
Badoy said in a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, May 18, 2021, that they will assist the Lumad parents, whose children were reportedly kidnapped and brought to the retreat house of the Societas Verbi Divini Philippines Southern Province, University of San Carlos-Talamban campus in Cebu City, to file a motion for reconsideration. Wag sila masyadong magdidiwang kasi butas na butas sila dito (They should not celebrate just yet because we noticed many loopholes here), the NTF-Elcac official said.