Tag: The Philippines
Posted in Social Justice
Under Duterte retribution fuels death penalty by executive fiat
by Inday Espina-Varona A United Nations (UN) special rapporteur hit the Philippines’ crackdown on drug suspects…
Posted in The Philippines
Grenade explodes outside church in southern Philippines
DATU PIANG (UCAN): A grenade exploded outside St. Therese Parish Church in the southern Philippine…
Criminal court receives new evidence against Duterte
MANILA (UCAN): Families of drug war victims hope recent admissions to killings by policemen will…
Education in Philippines gets slumping grade
MANILA (UCAN): Jesuit Father Jose Ramon Villarin, president of Ateneo de Manila University, the Philippines,…
Posted in The Philippines
Philippine Senate hears proposals to legalise divorce
MANILA (UCAN): In the third week of September, the Philippine Senate began hearing proposals from…
Posted in International
Carbon producers get final memorandum
Manila (UCAN): Philippine environmental groups submitted a “final memorandum” against fossil fuel producers before the…
Posted in International
Filipinos reminded not to forget horrors of Martial Law
MANILA (UCAN): Church leaders have called on Filipinos to never forget the “horrors” of martial…
