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The Philippines’ ranking climbed from 116th placement in 2025 to 114th spot this year with a global score of 46.79. It is still under the dark orange category, which implies a “difficult” state of press freedom. Read more 👇🏼 bulatlat.com/2026/05/01/phi…

Today, PNP Zamboanga Peninsula released an update saying that the SITG created to look into the case has also recommended the filing of administrative charges against police personnel involved after it identified “procedural lapses.” Read more 👇🏼 bulatlat.com/2026/05/01/sol…

This raised a question considering that the operation was a joint undertaking between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police.

Yesterday, the mayor of Zamboanga City released information pertaining to the filing of charges against military personnel involved in a law enforcement operation that resulted in the killing of three civilians, including a 12-year-old child.

Negotiations on the workers’ demands for a just wage hike, however, fell in the company’s favor. But rank-and-file workers welcomed the decision granting their request on their work schedule, which they had been raising since 2014. Read more 👇🏼 bulatlat.com/2026/04/30/lan…

An Indigenous peoples alliance recalled how a Lumad leader strongly reprimanded Nancy Catamco during the latter’s attempt to release the hundreds of Lumad who took refuge in UCCP Haran, Davao City, in 2015 due to militarization. Read more 👇🏼 bulatlat.com/2026/04/29/ind…

TWIPH | Bay of Pigs Invasion Balikan natin kung bakit tinawag na 'perfect failure' ang pag-atake ng United States sa Bay of Pigs sa Cuba.

“It cannot simply be that the military’s account is accepted at face value when there are witnesses and evidence pointing to a different truth. What happened in Toboso must be investigated clearly and impartially." Read: bulatlat.com/2026/04/27/inv…

A group advocating for Moro people’s rights called for an independent and impartial investigation, including the presentation of footage from body-worn cameras used by the authorities during the operation. Read more 👇🏼 bulatlat.com/2026/04/27/gro…

“The public must know whether these facilities are being set up as dual-use platforms that can be repurposed for war logistics and militarized supply prepositioning,” lawmakers from the Makabayan bloc said in a joint statement. bulatlat.com/2026/04/21/pax…

“As the ‘tribune of the people,’ the OSG has a duty to ensure that sham and fabricated cases, like the cases against Frenchie and Marielle, should not be allowed to prosper,” Laywer Ephraim Cortez wrote in a Facebook post. bulatlat.com/2026/04/22/sol…

N PHOTOS: Drug war families gather at UP Diliman to collectively await the decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Appeals Chamber about the court's jurisdiction over Rodrigo Duterte's alleged crimes against humanity of murder and attempted. (via Dominic Gutoman)

WATCH: Families victimized by Rodrigo Duterte's so-called "drug war" celebrate the decision of International Criminal Court (ICC) Appeals Chamber, maintaining the court's jurisdiction over Duterte's alleged crimes against humanity. (via Dominic Gutoman/Bulatlat)

Advocates pointed out that the proposed measure won’t address the recurring problem faced by Indigenous peoples. The NCIP, meanwhile, for them, failed to safeguard the people it swore to protect. Read more 👇🏼 bulatlat.com/2026/04/18/ind…

WATCH: The strike continues, union president Bernard Dimaunahan announced in a protest tonight, April 16. He attended the negotiations earlier at 3 p.m., with the Kowloon House's management, Katipunan Food Services Inc (KFSI), and the Department of Labor and Employment.

The loss of fishing grounds due to reclamation and urban development without community consultation has forced some small-scale fisherfolk to fish outside their municipalities. bulatlat.com/2026/04/16/ceb…

An anti-imperialist group pointed out that the oil depot that the country needs now, it said, is the one that will ensure the fuel supply for domestic needs amid the rising cost of petroleum products. Read more 👇🏼 bulatlat.com/2026/04/14/gro…

On the 84th Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor), progressive groups marched toward the US Embassy in Manila, condemning US President Donald Trump’s threats against Iran and the rest of the Middle East region.

Two years full of sorrow. The son of disappeared Mindanao-based labor union organizer William Lariosa stressed this out as they remain clueless of his father’s whereabouts since his abduction in Quezon, Bukidnon, on April 10, 2024. Read more 👇🏼 bulatlat.com/2026/04/10/aft…

Despite hours of waiting, these people left empty-handed. When asked what they would do next, they said they did not have a choice but to make another attempt. An urban poor group criticized this government program. Read more 👇🏼 bulatlat.com/2026/04/09/ord…