MARAWI CITY – Residents who were displaced when this city became a battlefield between government forces and the militants affiliated with the Islamic State six years ago will finally be compensated following the signing on Tuesday, May 23, of the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of...
Negros Oriental 3rd district Rep. Arnolfo "Arnie" Teves Jr. believes that he is a "victim", just like the family of slain Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degamo. "Pareho lang kami ng pamilya Degamo na biktima dito. Biktima sina Degamo, ako rin biktima dahil ginagamit ako ng marami dyan for political...
SEN. Imee Marcos addresses residents displaced by a massive fire in Molo, Iloilo City. (Tara Yap) ILOILO CITY – Sen. Imee Marcos over the weekend said she will work to provide housing for more than 300 families displaced by a fire in Barangays San Juan and West Habog-Habog in Molo District here...
Parañaque City Mayor Eric Olivarez distributed cash assistance and relief goods to 43 families who were victims of a fire in Sitio Cubic Side, Barangay Merville on Sunday, Jan. 15. Members of the 43 families or about 165 individuals are temporarily being sheltered at Merville Elementary School....
The local government of Las Piñas City extended assistance to 80 families who lost homes to a fire that occurred at Julius Compound in Barangay Pulang Lupa Uno on Nov. 18. Vice-Mayor April Aguilar visited the fire victims staying at Mapayapa Village covered court and gave them family food packs,...
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...
