CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga – Three minors who were forced to work as bar attendants were rescued while two suspects were arrested by authorities in Angeles City, report said on Saturday, March 25. Police Regional Office (PRO)-3 identified the two suspects as Rodelyn Caleloria Reyes, 45, and...
A human rights group on Friday, March 24, called for the urgent and unconditional release of 141 political prisoners in Negros Oriental and Negros Occidental, reiterating that the detention of these individuals violates the nation’s “call for unity.” Kapatid-Negros on Friday urged the...
Malacañang has appointed former Court of Appeals (CA) associate justice Monina Arevalo-Zenarosa as a new commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) said on Thursday, March 23. The announcement on Twitter came with a photo of Zenarosa taking...
Food waste and hunger are problems around the world, including the Philippines. A Food Consumption Survey of the Department of Science and Technology–Food and Nutrition Research Institute (DOST-FNRI) states: 1,717 metric tons of food are wasted every day in the Philippines. Every Filipino wastes...
TACLOBAN CITY – A woman received two life sentences for sexually abusing minors, including her daughter, in exchange for money from online sex offenders. The Regional Trial Court Branch 10 in the municipality of Abuyog, Leyte found the accused guilty of qualified trafficking, child abuse, and...
The Anti-Hazing Act of 2018 was enacted in the aftermath of the hazing death of University of Santo Tomas College of Law student Horacio Castillo III in a bid to prevent a similar fatal initiation rite from happening again. Five years after, however, hazing deaths still pervade — the latest victim...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. asked government agencies and private sector partners involved in his administration's housing project to always follow the rules, saying the program's success depends on their cooperation. Marcos said this as he led the groundbreaking of Camarines Sur's...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has ordered two government bodies to step up and harmonize government and private sector efforts in combating human trafficking, saying it could compromise the country's economy and national security. Marcos said this during his meeting with the Inter-Agency...
Close to 1,500 cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cases were logged last January, the Department of Health (DOH) said. Based on the latest DOH data, a total of 1,454 HIV cases were recorded in January. The average cases per day in the said month was at 46. Thirty-nine deaths due to HIV...
‘It’s a deep cultural problem’: Hontiveros defends PH Hazing law saying it’s already strict Senator Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday, March 8 expressed belief that the provisions under the current Anti-Hazing Act of 2018 are already strict and more comprehensive than in the previous...
Senators on Tuesday, March 7 took turns castigating an Adamson University official over the school’s perceived negligence in preventing hazing practices committed by fraternities and sororities not officially recognized by their institution. During the Senate Committee on Justice and Human Rights...
REFLECTIONS TODAY Gospel • Mark 7:1-13 When the Pharisees with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus, they observed that some of his disciples ate their meals with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands. (For the Pharisees and, in fact, all Jews, do not eat without carefully...
