On World Health Day, the Council for People's Development and Governance (CPDG) urged election hopefuls to push for a "people-center and planet-friendly" public health system. As Covid-19 cases in the country decline and more Filipinos start seeing the hope of living normally, CPDG stressed the...
The Council for People's Development and Governance (CPDG) stressed that long-time community health workers and human rights defender Dr. Natividad "Doc Naty" Castro should be given high recognition and respect, not trumped-up charges. (Photo courtesy of Council for Health and Development) CPDG...
Two women's groups hailed the Senate's move to cut the budget of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) by 86 percent. (Photo from Anakbayan Morayta / FILE) On Tuesday, Senator Sonny Angara said the Senate Finance Committee is set to slash the budget of NTF-ELCAC...
A civic group decried the administration's counter-insurgency program which has been "sowing terror and repression" among peasant and Indigenous communities. (Unsplash) According to the Council for People's Development and Governance (CPDG), Duterte's counterinsurgency program has taken the lives...
A civic group hailed the approval by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of a formal probe into President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war and the Davao Death Squad killings. (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) "Civil society is heartened by the ICC's move to authorize the investigation on crimes against humanity...
A multi-sectoral group hit the Department of Health (DOH) for "deficiencies" in P67-billion coronavirus disease (COVID-19) funds, saying it's a "clear disregard" for people's health and wellbeing. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) The DOH has been under public scrutiny recently after the Commission on...
