Human rights make man human

Madrileña de la Cerna 12/10/2016

For Senator Jose W. Diokno, no cause is more worthy than the cause of human rights. Human rights are more than legal concepts; they are the essence of man. They are what make man human. That is…

Eco-cultural tour

Madrileña de la Cerna 12/03/2016

I heard about how the Bojo River in Aloguinsan has been transformed into an eco-cultural tourist destination about seven years back but never had a chance to go. At the “Reconsolidation of CSO / Private Sector Participation…

Touching people

Madrileña de la Cerna 11/19/2016

The Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI) celebrated its 50th anniversary of embarking on programs and projects that aim to touch the lives and shape the future of people in its partner communities through its seven programs: Integrated…

Voices of courage

Madrileña de la Cerna 11/12/2016

A most fitting way to remember the most talked about Super Typhoon Yolanda three years after is the coffee table book “Haiyan the Aftermath: Images and Stories of Recovery in Samar and Leyte” written by Lucien Y.…

Megatrends for women

Madrileña de la Cerna 10/22/2016

When I was doing my dissertation on “Towards Developing Feminist Leadership in Philippine Setting” way back in the mid-1990s, one of the sources that helped me in working on my review of literature was a book on…

Engaging regional and national culture

Madrileña de la Cerna 09/24/2016

September 23-28, 1991 (exactly 25 years ago) marked the Cebu Cultural Week at UP Cebu spearheaded by its Local Studies Committee which I headed and involved the faculty of the different divisions and my Fourth Year Social…

Fifteen years later

Madrileña de la Cerna 09/10/2016

Today is the 15th anniversary of the September 11 attack, and there are certain lessons that will never be written down in history. One lesson is that there is no such thing as “faraway.” It was the…

Numbed

Madrileña de la Cerna 09/03/2016

Prof. Henry Francis Espiritu of UP Cebu wrote an article last week entitled “My Brother Filipinos, What Have We Become?” where he shares his reflections on the extrajudicial killings. He laments the “general apathy that average Filipinos…

Gendered terrain of disaster

Madrileña de la Cerna 07/09/2016

Women are especially hard-hit by the social impacts of environmental disasters. Global forces and social changes placing more people at greater risk of disaster also disproportionately impact women. Women are particularly vulnerable because they have fewer resources…

Despite the traffic

Madrileña de la Cerna 07/02/2016

I learned to take a taxi frequently in 1995 when we moved to Villa del Rio in Bacayan, Talamban. At that time very few taxis reached our place because it was sparsely populated then. It was considered…

The multiple gains of the 51st IEC

Madrileña de la Cerna 02/06/2016

An anonymous friend offered to sponsor my registration fee for the last four days of the 51st International Eucharistic Congress but registration was closed on the first day of the sessions.  But I did not miss anything…

A glimmer of hope

Madrileña de la Cerna 01/24/2016

The Legal Alternatives for Women Center, Inc. ((LAW Center, Inc.) continued its tradition of holding an “agape” lunch on the Feast of the Santo Niño before joining the procession of the Holy Child.  This year’s gathering was…

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