Bulatlat looks back at the decisions of the high court which affect the public the most, and the Filipino people’s fundamental rights and welfare.
SPECIAL REPORT | All eyes on Supreme Court justices as they hear petitioners vs Anti-Terror Law
Now that the schedule has been set, the focus now is on how the members of the high court would come up with a decision on these. Considering the caliber of the lawyers questioning the ATL’s validity, will they simply brush off the arguments to put a finality on the question and allow the president to do as he wills or will they listen to the arguments and seriously put the law into question?
IN-DEPTH: Public education sector, neglected even more in the time of pandemic
With the pandemic still raging on, the crisis in the Philippine educational system has been further exposed. Instead of addressing the concerns of the education sector, the Duterte administration has chosen to neglect it even more by not providing enough budget for distance learning.
#SONA2020 | Bulatlat Special Coverage
President Rodrigo Duterte will deliver his fifth State of the Nation Address on Monday, July 27. Bulatlat examines Duterte’s policies on the economy and foreign policy, his COVID-19 response and track record on human rights and the attacks on press freedom and expression since the lockdown.
Joint statement: Stand with ABS-CBN, Defend Free Expression
As we have said, time and again, the fight for the ABS-CBN franchise renewal is a fight for free expression and a fight for all. But Parlade is instead red-tagging virtually everyone and anyone who supports the call for the renewal of the ABS-CBN franchise.
Beyond the virus: COVID-19 Special Coverage
In-depth stories, analyses, features on the gov’t response to #COVID19PH, including state of public health system & impacts of #COVIDPHQuarantine on the most vulnerable.
Government’s logic behind the series of raids and arrests
By DANILO ARAO, RONALYN OLEA, JANESS ANN ELLAO, MARYA SALAMAT, ANNE MARXZE UMIL, JOHN AARON MACARAEG, ALYSSA MAE CLARIN, JUSTIN UMALI, CARLO MANALANSAN, JOMARI ALEJANDRO III HERRERA Bulatlat.com …
Pooled editorial | Community journalism is not a crime: Stop disinformation on Negros 57, free Anne Krueger!
Paghimutad was formed after the Sagay 9 massacre in response to the growing human rights violations in the island. Despite the culture of fear in Negros, Paghimutad and its volunteer community journalists courageously filled the void of information, publishing audio-visual reports through social media.
Pooled editorial | On the Attacks vs Brandon Lee of Nordis, Kristin Lim of Radyo Lumad: Hands off alternative media!
Like other human rights defenders, journalists writing about human rights have been treated as targets by those who have no respect for life and liberties of the Filipino people.
STATEMENT: Freedom of expression in the time of Duterte
Over three years ago, the nation has been promised: change is coming. And change did come, but things took a turn for the worse. As the nation marks President Rodrigo Duterte’s third year in power, we look back in sheer dismay over the unprecedented attacks perpetrated primarily by the state, with the apparent goal of…
#UnitedPeoplesSONA2019 | Special coverage
Three years into his presidency, people’s calls and aspirations for genuine change resound ever so loudly under Rodrigo Roa Duterte. In this special page, Bulatlat is collating its reports on how the present administration has fared.