Kabataan Partylist Rep. Raymond Palatino reiterated his call for Congress to pass House Bill No. 4353, which seeks to provide for the inclusion of a course on the life, works and ideals of Bonifacio in the collegiate curricula.

Notwithstanding the legal gibberish, how exactly could this new law affect your day-to-day Internet activities?

Bloggers, netizens and lawmakers allayed fears on the increased penalty for crimes done with the aid of computer systems and provisions that could lead to Internet censorship and website takedowns in the newly-passed Republic Act No. 10175 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012.

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by Atty. James Mark Terry Ridon
National President and General Counsel, Kabataan Partylist 
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ONLINE LIBEL
While RA No. 10175 makes clear mention of libel related to Art. 355 of the Revised Penal Code and committed through computer systems (Sec. 4(c)4), there is no mention in the law of the penalty to be imposed on such offense.
It is an elementary rule in criminal law that there can be no crime can be committed, nor punishment imposed without a pre-existing penal law.
Contingent upon the existence of a penal law is the definition of the particular penalty …

As the House of Representatives deliberated the proposed budget of state universities and colleges (SUCs) and the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) in the plenary session last September 11, several students stood up from the gallery and shouted familiar chants.

The public may be wondering, “SUCs will receive a higher budget next year, why still protest?” Here are ten reasons why we should not only continue our call for greater state subsidy, but intensify the struggle of the youth sector

Kinakailangang salubungin ng kabataan ang nakaambang pagpapaigting ng komersyalisasyon ng edukasyon ng isang mas pinaigting at pinalakas na kilusan. Hindi na lamang usapin ng pagpapataas ng badyet ang nararapat pagtuunan ng pansin, kundi ang pangmatagalang plano ng gobyerno para sa edukasyong tersyaryo.

This day marks the 30th anniversary of the passage of Batas Pambansa (BP) Blg.232, more popularly known as the Education Act of 1982, signed into law by then President Ferdinand Marcos on September 11, 1982. This seminal law governs both formal and nonformal education systems in public and private schools in all levels of instruction in the country.

Kabataan Partylist and its member organizations condemn the Philippine Army’s facilitation of “counterinsurgency campaign symposiums” in elementary and high schools in the Cordillera Administrative Region, citing various reports that the military has utilized said events to tag progressive youth organizations as “communist fronts.”

On former Senator Benigno Aquino Jr.’s 29th death anniversary, Kabataan Partylist Rep. Raymond Palatino called on President Benigno Aquino III to “honor” his father by granting a “general, unconditional omnibus amnesty” to all political prisoners in the country and addressing the worsening human rights situation in the country.

Responding to the Commission on Higher Education’s (CHED) recent statement saying that Kabataan Partylist Rep. Raymond Palatino is “belittling” the increase in the budget for state universities and colleges (SUCs) for 2013, Palatino reiterated that the funds for the country’s 110 public higher education institutions are still “grossly insufficient.”