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It took 12 years for activists to score a legal victory in the 2010 killing of a Bayan Muna coordinator and activist in Negros Occidental — but one rights lawyer who worked to see the accused military personnel jailed was no longer able to witness this win.

Bayan Muna Party-list is seeking a probe into the recently-begun absentee voting process for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) through the House Committee on Suffrage and Electoral Reforms. An overseas Filipino in Bangladesh is among the early nationals to cast votes for the May 2022 national ele

Following the destruction wrought by Typhoon Agaton, the Senate must expedite their version of the Permanent Evacuation Centers Bill, argued Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Zarate. Search and rescue personnel from the Armed Forces of the Philippines and Philippine National Police assist in the retrieval o

Two soldiers of the Philippine Army have been found guilty by the Bacolod Regional Trial Court of murder in connection with the killing of activist Benjamin Bayles in 2010 .

Article VI, Section 27(1) of the 1987 Constitution provides that while the president can veto a bill passed by Congress, the legislature can overturn this by a vote of two-thirds of each house.

Chicago, IL - I just returned from eight days in Luzon, the largest island in the Philippines, where the capital, Manila, is located. For many years, the movement for national democracy in the Philippines has asked for international solidarity, including human rights defenders to aid them in their struggle for economic and political rights.

National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) vice chair Hermogenes Esperon Jr. (File photo) MANILA - National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) vice chair Hermogenes Esperon Jr. said an election period does not suspend the operation of a legitimate arm of government, especially in maintaining peace and order. This, as the 12 cluster heads of the body on Wednesday signed and filed their counter affidavits on the various Omnibus Election Code com...

President Duterte said on Tuesday it would be “dangerous” if candidates allied with the communists win in the May 9 elections.

UNMASKING. Members of the League of Parents of the Philippines or the Liga ng mga Magulang, Liga Independencia Pilipinas, Sulong Maralita, and Yakap ng mga Magulang Movement, stage a protest rally in front of the Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City on Wednesday (April 13, 2022). The groups and other anti-communist organizations vowed anew to become more relentless in "unmasking" all legal front organizations of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army and the National Dem...

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte (File photo) MANILA - President Rodrigo Roa Duterte warned Tuesday that it would be "dangerous" if the candidates for the May 9, 2022 elections who are in alliance with the communist movement get elected to public office. "Delikado iyan kasi pag nandiyan na, kung manalo man sila (It's dangerous if they win the elections)," Duterte said during the joint meeting of the National Task Force (NTF) and the Regional Task Force (RTF) to End Local Com...