NO STATE-SPONSORED KILLINGS

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Izobelle T. Pulgo, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 12/08/2016

Human rights and church leaders in Cebu expressed dismay over the joint report by the Senate committees on justice and human rights, and public order and dangerous drugs that declared that the government has nothing to do,…

Protecting Environmental Rights and their Defenders

Atty. Gloria Estenzo Ramos 12/04/2016

Miracles are provided by Nature to all of us but we haughtily take them for granted, as if our home planet owes us these services. How can we possibly exist without the air, water, land, trees, the…

Human rights investigator: No EJK conclusion in PH is premature

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 12/02/2016

THE chief investigator of the Commission on Human Rights in Central Visayas (CHR-7) refuted claims that there are no extrajudicial killings in the country. “It’s premature to make any conclusions for now. There has been no official…

CEBU HONORS YOU

Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/29/2016

It will be a different way of remembering Gat Andres Bonifacio as seven Cebuanos will be honored today as heroes and martyrs of the martial law regime at the Plaza Independencia. In an event organized by the…

How to fuel positivism

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/21/2016

Inquirer Group CEO Prieto-Romualdez, Dentsu-Aspac CCO Ong share thoughts on positivism in CDN Conversations 3 Fueling positivism in one’s line of work should always be anchored in a company’s mission and vision. This was the point raised…

Orange Days — continuing the efforts to end violence against women

Sofia Aliño Logarta 11/16/2016

In 1996, Legal Alternatives for Women Center, Inc. started its work of joining women victims of violence in claiming their rights. Its first case was that of a married woman who had been raped twice by a…

‘Sometimes, rule of law can be stupid proposition’

11/15/2016

For President Rodrigo Duterte, ensuring the safety of Filipinos in a country “rocked with rebellion and extremism” and “flooded with drugs” can be “hell” and nightmarish. “You know countries like the Philippines, you do what is right,…

Senate resolution vs Marcos burial fails approval

11/15/2016

A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate against the burial of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani has failed to get the approval of the chamber after only eight senators voted…

OLD WOUNDS

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Izobelle T. Pulgo, Jhunnex Napallacan, Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Nestle L. Semilla 11/08/2016

Supreme Court decision triggers waves of anger, dissent The hammer has fallen on the decades-old issue of whether or not Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos can be buried a hero at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB). In…

China passes cybersecurity law

11/08/2016

BEIJING — China on Monday passed a controversial cybersecurity bill further tightening restrictions on online freedom of speech, raising concerns that it could intensify already wide-ranging Internet censorship. The ruling Communist Party oversees a vast censorship system…

EU team to investigate EJKs this month, UN to follow

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 11/03/2016

WITH about 4,700 people killed in the government’s anti-drug war since President Rodrigo Duterte took office, the United Nations (UN) and the European Union (EU) have began preparations to come to the Philippines to investigate the spate…

Militant youths call for end to EJK

Dominic D. Yasay 11/03/2016

MILITANT youth groups from across Southeast Asia voiced their condemnation to the extrajudicial killings occurring in the country and called on the Duterte administration to stop it. Commission on Human Rights (CHR) commissioner Chito Gascon attended the…

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