“HINDI sampung libong piso ang katumbas ng buhay ng aking anak, ang kailangan namin ay katarungan.”

Ito ang mariing binigkas ni Jocelyn Polborido, 30 anyos na ina ni Rafaela Polborido, ang  dalawang taong gulang na batang namatay sa clearing operation ng militar sa Barangay Balanak, Ligao City, Albay noong Pebrero 18, 2009.  Bahagi ito ng malawakang operasyong militar ng  65th Infantry Battalion ng Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) sa bulubunduking bahagi ng rehiyong Bicol at maging sa mga baybayin nito bilang paghahanda sa ehersisyong militar na Balikatan s

MANILA CITY, Philippines--Militant groups protest against charter change and the Arroyo administration. In line with the 60th universal declaration of human rights, protesters express their sentiments to INQUIRER.net multimedia reporter Marjorie Gorospe.

At least 300 Filipino youths trooped to the historic Don Chino Roces Bridge (formerly Mendiola) Saturday and protested what they called “anti-child” policies of President Arroyo’s administration.

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines, 8 February 2008 — American soldiers were with Filipino troops involved in the killing of seven Muslim civilians and a government soldier in the southern Philippines last Monday, a survivor in the “massacre” said yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines -- Surface the "the disappeared." Stop the abductions. Pull the military out of the villages.

These demands -- not toys -- were on the Christmas wish list of children whose parents had been abducted by the military or whose families had been displaced by government operations against communist rebels in the countryside.

President Gloria Arroyo may be away, but this did not stop 300 children and children’s rights activists from claiming what had always been denied more mature activists:  Mendiola Bridge.

Photo report of the activity on Arkibong Bayan.

Salinlahi is cited by Inquirer in this feature about Human Rights.

By most accounts here, 9-year-old Grecil Buya was a bright and playful girl who often missed class because she liked to catch spiders.

She lived in a shack with her parents and three siblings, peasants in the province of Compostela Valley, the hotbed of the Communist insurgency in this part of the southern Philippines.