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The challenge to protect children from online abuse

Laws may be important words on paper, but changing a culture of child abuse is an almost insurmountable challenge. It continues in homes, communities and churches

Church in Bicol warns large-scale mining threatens land, livelihoods, and future

The manifesto casts environmental stewardship as a matter of justice, accountability and communities’ right to influence development decisions

Full enforcement of 50-year mining moratorium urged amid climate, corruption concerns

Care for creation requires confronting corruption, environmental destruction and policies that leave poor communities bearing the greatest burden

Motorists’ rights in focus as recurring NLEX floods draw accountability questions

Repeated flooding on the tollway has renewed questions over warning systems, refunds, safety and operator accountability for motorists

Press freedom campaign demands answers in RJ Ledesma killing

Detained journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio joined calls to protect reporters covering marginalized communities amid threats to press freedom

Anti-mining arrests in northern Philippines prompt calls for justice, dialogue

Church leaders urged authorities to respect rights, review mining safeguards and pursue dialogue amid tensions in Nueva Vizcaya

Consumer group questions DOE gas auction rollout amid unfinished rate consultations

Advocates say expanding gas procurement could burden households outside Meralco areas while new renewable capacity prepares to enter the grid

Rights group warns critical minerals policy could open 9 million hectares...

Rights group warns critical minerals policy could threaten ancestral domains and link Philippine mining to defense supply chains

Pope Leo XIV calls for end to violence against Palestinians

In the past, Jewish people were victims of genocide, displacement, torture and extermination. Now, Israel is doing the same to the Palestinians

Women prisoners demand return of funds, abolition of CIW trust system

Karapatan urges an inquiry as women inmates challenge a cashless prison system they say failed to protect savings

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