Dominic Gutoman

1 day ago | bulatlat.com | Dominic Gutoman

MANILA – Desaparecidos, an organization of family and friends of victims of enforced disappearances, calls on the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to investigate the unwarranted military visits to Nica Ortiz, sister of disappeared peasant organizer Norman Ortiz, April 21. Earlier this year, January 2025, two military officers who claimed to be with the 84th Infantry Battalion, visited their home in Licab, Nueva Ecija.

5 days ago | bulatlat.com | Dominic Gutoman

MANILA – This Black Saturday, a procession reenacting the Stations of the Cross remembered the children and families who became victims of the extrajudicial killings of former president Rodrigo Duterte’s so-called “drug war.”Gathering at the University of the Philippines Diliman, members of the Children’s Rehabilitation Center (CRC) expressed their collective grief and indignation through narratives, symbolic representations, and moments of reflection.

1 week ago | bulatlat.com | Dominic Gutoman

MANILA — LGBT group Bahaghari denounced the red-tagging of its former leader, Eyu Delfin by alleged military personnel in Muñoz, Nueva Ecija. Delfin was the former chairperson of Bahaghari-Nueva Ecija and is currently a second year student at Central Luzon State University (CLSU). The incident involved a friend of Delfin who was approached by a man in plainclothes claiming to be from the military on April 10.

2 weeks ago | bulatlat.com | Dominic Gutoman

MANILA – With the deployment of 80 private armed guards in Sitio Mariahangin, Bugsuk, Palawan, concerned groups and individuals expressed support for the Molbog indigenous peoples’ right to their ancestral land. In a statement, Puerto Princesa, Palawan Bishop Socrates Mesiona said that justice and peace should prevail in the lives of the indigenous peoples.

2 weeks ago | bulatlat.com | Dominic Gutoman

MANILA – Salinlahi Alliance for Children’s Concerns called on the government to address alarming cases of online sexual abuse of children. In the 2022 study of International Justice Mission (IJM) and the University of Nottingham Rights Lab, nearly 500,000 Filipino children were trafficked to produce child sexual exploitation material (CSEM) in that year alone. The number may be higher as the crime is underreported.