A lawmaker in the House of Representatives has filed a bill that seeks to protect parts of the West Philippine Sea from “destructive human exploitation" by declaring these as marine protected areas.
Former president Rodrigo Roa Duterte made his first public appearance since stepping down from office five months ago on Wednesday night, Nov. 9, 2022, serenaded by his former co-workers in government at a concert dubbed “Night of the Singing Ex-Cabinet Members” at the Dusit Thani Hotel in Makati.
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The NUPL said that while the petition is pending, their members continue to face threats to life, liberty and security committed by the respondents, state agents, their proxies, enablers and supporters in different forms and platforms.
“However silly the term ‘operatibang internet operator’ sounds, the attempt to link Ms. Olea to the CPP-NPA-NDF for her work in Bulatlat and in NUJP shows how hollow the claim made by Justice Secretary Crispin Remulla before the UN Human Rights Council that red-tagging is simple criticism that is ‘part of a democracy.'"