Indigenous Peoples Rights Act and struggle for self-determination

ATTY. DENNIS R. GORECHO 10/17/2024

Despite  the enactment of the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA) or R.A. No. 8371 twenty-seven years ago, conflicting laws and policies have made the implementation of this law quite challenging. This was the pronouncement of the Catholic Bishops’…

Marine litter: Threat to health, food security, economy, environment

ATTY. DENNIS R. GORECHO 10/09/2024

Some 352,479 kilograms of trash and debris, ranging from plastics to other waste materials, were collected in 250 coastal sites across the country during the International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) last September 21, 2024. ICC is the world’s…

UAAP  Season 87 opens with the theme ‘Stronger, Better, Together’

ATTY. DENNIS R. GORECHO 09/11/2024

  The University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) Season 87 commenced last weekend  at the Smart Araneta Coliseum with the theme “Stronger, Better, Together” . “The University of the Philippines opens the Season 87 as host by…

Flowers for Lolas: Filipina comfort women say No To War

ATTY. DENNIS R. GORECHO 05/01/2024

“We will continue to renounce war because we do not want the next generation to experience what we went through.” Filipina comfort woman Lola Estelita Dy celebrated her 94th birthday in a press conference  that coincided with the anniversary…

Mythical  Chinese dragons and bakunawa

ATTY. DENNIS R. GORECHO 02/14/2024

I am usually among those who converge along the streets of Binondo in celebration of Chinese New Year for the special performances (Dragon/Lion dances), cuisine, lucky charms, prosperity fruits, and boxes of “tikoy.” 2024 is the Year…

Spotlight on Cinemalaya films on human rights, red-tagging and extrajudicial killings  

ATTY. DENNIS R. GORECHO 08/08/2023

“If you destroy my country, I will kill you.” These are the words of former President Rodrigo Duterte that resonated in the documentary film Maria  of the 19th Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival at the at the Philippine…

Celebrations of mangoes: ‘There is always light in even the darkest times’

ATTY. DENNIS R. GORECHO 05/30/2023

Songs of Rivermaya like “Liwanag Sa Dilim” reverberated before a huge crowd at the municipal grounds of Jordan, Guimaras as the highlight of this year’s Manggahan festival. With its  English translation “there is always light in even…

Congratulatory tarps for new lawyers Marawi as the City of Streamers

ATTY. DENNIS R. GORECHO 05/23/2023

MARAWI City — After the release of the results of the 2022 bar examinations, Marawi City will again be flooded with huge congratulatory tarpaulins for its new lawyers. When I visited Marawi last February, I was really…

Spending time on Mother’s Day with cancer-afflicted kids

ATTY. DENNIS R. GORECHO 05/16/2023

The month of May has three significant dates for our family: Mothers’ day, Mama’s birthday and her death anniversary. My mother, fondly called Mama Linda, died on May 17, 2002 due to pericarditis and lymphoma three days…

Magna Carta for Filipino Seafarers as translation of President Magsaysay’s ‘He who has less in life should have more in law’

ATTY. DENNIS R. GORECHO 05/03/2023

“He who has less in life should have more in law” is the wisdom popularized by the late President Ramon Magsaysay as far as the constitutional social justice principle is concerned. The pending Magna Carta for Filipino…

Proposed Escrow provision in the Magna Carta  prejudicial  for seafarers

ATTY. DENNIS R. GORECHO 01/24/2023

The inclusion of an escrow provision in the pending Magna Carta for Filipino seafarers will adversely affect the legal battle for labor claims. The employers and manning agencies again proposed the provision which in essence aimed to…

Non-deployment as basis for total and permanent disability benefits

ATTY. DENNIS R. GORECHO 10/11/2022

A seafarer, who was no longer deployed back to work, may be entitled to total and permanent disability benefits due to an illness that he suffered while on board the vessel. This was the ruling of the…

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