“My mother said that the man was commanded by a fellow policeman to interrogate me about my supposed ‘officership’ in KPL-Tacloban as the one ‘handling finance and budget.”
2025-12-04 11:14:08 +0000 UTC View PostBREAKING NEWS: A local court in Quezon City granted the complaint for nullification filed by media outfit Bulatlat against the memorandum ordering the blocking of 27 websites.
See the decisio...
2025-11-25 11:23:33 +0000 UTC View Post
“There is still a lot of underreporting and we still need a lot to talk to in order to expand information dissemination and awareness raising, and ensure that those who report will not experience...
2025-11-17 07:28:32 +0000 UTC View Post
The use of government as an extension of business is known as bureaucrat capitalism. Bureaucrat capitalism emerges when political power is concentrated to a small class of economic elites,...
2025-10-28 10:14:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Bulatlat successfully concludes its forum “Promoting Human Rights Journalism in the Academe” — bringing together teachers from nine universities and colleges to strengthen efforts in integrat...
2025-10-27 02:53:18 +0000 UTC View Post
In this article, Bulatlat fact-checks the claims of the government officials in the major anti-corruption protest in Manila that resulted in more than 215 individuals arrested, including 91 minors....
2025-09-28 08:29:24 +0000 UTC View PostAre these too much, too radical, too excessive? No, it is the corruption and the rotten system that’s too much.
The people are creating the means to stop corruption and change the system. L...
2025-09-22 09:34:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The resettlement site is commonly referred to as 722 Relocation because of the number of housing units that were supposed to be built here. This resettlement site is just one of several for Sendong...
2025-09-12 06:52:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Bulatlat has chronicled Duterte's bloody "war on drugs" using human rights as lens, as well as the families' quest for justice. Read our archives here.
2025-09-08 07:11:04 +0000 UTC View PostHindi karahasan ang mambato ng putik o bulok na gulay dahil galit sa mga magnanakaw at kurakot. Bakit hahanapan ng pagkilos na “mapayapa” o “disente” kung patuloy ang pambabasto...
2025-09-05 11:56:01 +0000 UTC View Post
For 23 months, the Israeli authorities have refused to grant journalists outside of Gaza independent access to the Palestinian territory – a situation that is without precedent in modern warfare....
2025-09-01 11:46:42 +0000 UTC View Post
There has been an increase of adolescent pregnancy among children aged under 15 in the last three years.
2025-09-01 11:45:25 +0000 UTC View Post“With public outrage over questionable DPWH flood control projects in San Juan, this incident underscores the urgent need for deeper investigation and lifestyle checks on officials handling infra...
2025-08-27 13:11:44 +0000 UTC View Post
A Mangyan-Hanunuo went to fetch water in the uplands of Barangay Happy Valley, Roxas, Oriental Mindoro on August 7, and hours later, was found dead.
2025-08-19 04:17:22 +0000 UTC View Post
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines - Bulatlat chapter convenes to revitalize website blocking and press freedom campaigns, and welcome new members.
The chapter elects its n...
For a small island still rebuilding from a pandemic and a typhoon, the sudden influx of a tightly knit foreign group has created a cultural friction point.
2025-07-30 12:28:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Across the Philippines, many communities are losing their livelihoods and homes in the name of so-called development projects causing environmental destruction. With Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’...
2025-07-26 07:27:39 +0000 UTC View Post
“If the ‘iron-clad’ alliance comes with selling out the [Philippine] economy in exchange for ‘military aid’, then that’s not really an ‘alliance’ and that’s not really ‘...
2025-07-26 02:43:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Rahoof Kaliyarakath of the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin talks with Bulatlat about the latter's experiences on putting people at the center of reporting. Rahoof i...
2025-07-21 09:32:24 +0000 UTC View Post
"[Torture] is the response of the government to our calls to address our basic rights in this manner.”
John Griefren Argueli, is a torture survivor who was illegally arrested in 2019 whil...
[NEWSROOM FEATS] Bulatlat is honored to be long-listed in the Press Freedom Award category of One World Media 2025. This means a lot to us as we persevere in doing journalism for the people amid th...
2025-04-05 10:16:09 +0000 UTC View Post
As a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), the Philippines has committed to provide quality education for learners with disabilities. Howev...
2025-03-30 09:58:56 +0000 UTC View Post
“The AFP and NTF-ELCAC are clearly scrambling to cover up their humiliation after Jhed and Jonila courageously exposed their black-propaganda operations,” - Mattie Balagat of the Environmental ...
2025-03-26 02:14:48 +0000 UTC View Post
“Until Enriquez is surfaced and Campos is granted immediate access to her family and lawyers, their rights and safety remain at risk,” said the fact-finding mission team in a statement.
2025-03-11 04:51:54 +0000 UTC View Post
The free and responsible press should not be seen as a threat by the government or their spokespersons who should be willing to deal with public scrutiny openly, according to the NUJP Albay Chapter...
2025-03-09 06:04:33 +0000 UTC View Post
A significant part of Myrna’s life has been dedicated to advocating for the rights of indigenous peoples, women, and workers. She has long been subject to state repression,” said Karapatan NCR....
2025-02-05 11:19:44 +0000 UTC View Post
The 17 groups who drafted the agenda believe that human rights should be at the “front and center of the 2025 elections” amid challenges in addressing human rights violations in the country, hi...
2025-02-05 10:51:52 +0000 UTC View Post
“There is no difference (between Marcos Jr. and Duterte). If not slapped with trumped up charges, people are being killed to silence them,” Defend Southern Tagalog spokesperson Charm Maranan sa...
2024-12-12 03:27:37 +0000 UTC View Post