Gabriela Women’s Party-list Rep. Arlene Brosas has promised to push for increased financial subsidies for victims of natural disasters in the 2023 annual budget. (Photo from Gabriela Women's Party-list Facebook) “In the upcoming budget deliberations, we will definitely push for more budget for...
ILOILO CITY -- Activists and former political detainees re-inaugurated a monument in Iloilo City dedicated to the alleged victims of martial law. Activists attended a brief program that re-inaugurated a monument in Iloilo City dedicated to the martyrs of the martial law years. (Courtesy of Panay...
FRANKFURT, Germany -- The German parliament will for the first time next year commemorate victims of the Nazi regime, who were persecuted and killed for their sexual or gender identity, the Bundestag president said Friday. On January 27, the international Holocaust Remembrance Day, German MPs will...
MADRID, Spain -- Spanish lawmakers on Thursday gave the first stamp of approval to a bill which seeks to rehabilitate the memory of leftwing victims of Spain's 1936-39 civil war and Francisco Franco's dictatorship. The proposed law threatens to fuel tensions in a nation where public opinion is...
BODIES of four persons believed to be ‘salvage’ or summary execution victims are sprawled on a remote part of the road in Purok 9, Biasong, Barangay Imelda, Villanueva, Misamis Oriental, Sunday, July 10. (Photo courtesy of Cyril Cambalon Jr.) CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The bodies of four suspected...
The first bill that incoming Senator Raffy Tulfo will file in the 19th Congress will be about domestic violence. ‘’In my anti-domestic violence bill whoever the victims are, they will be helped. Victims need places where they can go to for immediate help, where they can seek safe refuge, find...
Cenon Zambrano, a victim of Martial Law in the 1970s, came home to the Philippines from the US to support presidential candidate Leni Robredo. He was in his 30s when he was arrested and tortured by authorities under then President Ferdinand Marcos’ Martial Law in 1973. Martial Law victim Cenon...
Four and a half years after the end of the five-month long Marawi siege in May to October 2017, Congress has passed Republic Act No. 11696, the Marawi Siege Victims Compensation Act. The law provides compensation to those whose kin were killed, as well as those whose properties were destroyed in...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go on Friday praised the people of Marawi for their fortitude and determination to rebuild their city after the five-month siege in 2017 that nearly destroyed their lives and disrupted their livelihood. That is why, Go said, residents of Marawi would greatly benefit...
The residents of Marawi City can finally start rebuilding their homes and their lives now that the measure providing compensation to victims of the five-month long siege has been signed into law, Sen. Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara said on Thursday. “Matagal na itong hinihintay ng ating mga...
Carmen Sanchez, who was sprayed acid in her face, poses for a picture after an interview with AFP at the Carmen Sanchez Foundation which she founded, in Mexico City on March 15, 2022. Gender violence is a major problem in Mexico, which registered 3,751 murders of women in 2021, of which 1,004 were...
The Valenzuela City government distributed on Tuesday, April 26, financial assistance to 1,069 families who were affected by the fire incident in Dulong Tangke, Malinta last April 9. Mayor Rex Gatchalian said the families who lost their homes were given P15,000 each while those whose houses were...
