With continuing attacks against lawyers, arrests and killings of activists and rampant red-tagging, Constitutional Framer Ed Garcia, also petitioner against the Anti-Terrorism Act, said it is time to “transform outrage into courage.”

"Why [is the police] turning the narrative around? I don't understand that...I am asking for help. I can't get justice from the Philippine National Police," he said in Filipino, addressing President Rodrigo Duterte. 

Nearly a year since the government first imposed lockdowns, the country's caseload reached 600,428. Of these, 41,822, or 7%, are active cases. 

WHO country representative Rabindra Abeyasinghe stressed the need for solidarity and coordination among local government units, especially in Metro Manila.

A Bacolod City court has quashed the search warrant issued by Quezon City Judge Cecilyn Burgos-Villavert that led to the arrest of several activists in Bacolod in 2019.

Planting trees is easy. Keeping the seedlings alive for them to grow is the challenge for Ernie Belmonte and other forest rangers at the Masungi Georeserve Foundation.

The Philippines is set to sign on Wednesday a definitive agreement with US biotech company Novavax for 30 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine. 

The chosen COVID-19 contact tracing app of the government is still not in its hands nine months after the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Infectious Diseases ordered the app’s donation to the state.

"I am asking for help. I can't get justice from the Philippine National Police."

Citing the “Bloody Sunday” police raids that led to nine activists dead, the country’s legal luminaries are again knocking on the doors of the Supreme Court to stop temporarily stop the implementation of the reviled Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020.