IPRA: 28 years of broken promises
Twenty-eight years since its enactment, the law’s performance remains disappointing: it has successfully recognized the rights of just over 1.2 million Indigenous Peoples, highlighting a profound failure in its mandate.
Bonifacio Day anti-corruption rally to demand accountability from BBM, Sara
The Kilusang Bayan Kontra Kurakot (KBKK) announced its November 30 rally will demand accountability from all government officials involved in corruption, including President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Vice President Sara Duterte. In a press conference in Quezon City on Thursday, the anti-corruption alliance demanded the investigation and prosecution of all officials involved in anomalous infrastructure […]
Joe Torres needs new eyeglasses
Torres was quoted as saying a culture of impunity does not exist in our version of paradise. He was not expected to say the opposite in the presence of the honorable officials of the National Police Commission, the agency responsible for supervising the Philippine National Police.
University Condemns Corruption, Mining in Nueva Vizcaya
Saint Mary’s University (SMU) of Bayombong said “corruption is evil in every shape or manner,” warning that corruption destroys public trust, weakens institutions, and fuels a culture of cynicism and hopelessness.
Pot, kettle: Pathetic word war on who is more servile to foreign powers
The word war between the Dutertes and the Marcoses has nothing to do with patriotism. It is all about whose faction is more shameful in selling out the country’s sovereignty, security, and patrimony to their foreign patrons.
Losing badly at the ICC
It is not yet known when other respondents would join Duterte. Misery loves company. It must be terribly lonely for Duterte to stay alone in his cell. How soon would Sens. Bato de la Rosa and Bong Go join him? Only the ICC knows.
On media killings: NUJP slams PTFoMS exec’s denial of culture of impunity
The NUJP said it is crucial that the government recognize, rather than downplay, the dangers that Filipino journalists face.
TikTok kills
TikTok and social media must be controlled with viable guardrails, tamed with operational rules and barred from promoting bashing and stan culture.
Victims’ kin hail ICC rejection of Duterte’s jurisdiction challenge
Mothers of several victims said they wish confirmation of charges proceedings against Duterte shall immediately proceed after the ICC rejection of Duterte’s appeal as it has nearly been a decade since the complaints have been filed.
Thank you, little Naya
I realized I shouldn’t patronize Naya. She deserves a simple answer but not a simplistic one. Her courageous act of voicing out her aghast at the realities the film showed her deserved a reply that does not simply try to satisfy with a neatly-packaged response for a child.