By JOEL SIMON and SHEILA CORONEL | Committee to Protect Journalists | The nearly perfect record of impunity in the Philippines has had a devastating impact on the free flow of information and has inhibited coverage of human rights and corruption issues in the communities affected by violence.
extrajudicial killings, human rightsMonthly Archives: April 2008
Malacanang warned today against possible outbreak of the deadly Avian Flu if exotic fowl meat from other Asian countries continued flooding the local market due to corruption in the Bureau of Customs.
healthThe OFWs said that instead of helping them, them Filipino officials in Saudi Arabia caused them problems and hardship.
OFWs and migrationOne only needs to look at government data to see the basis for a substantial wage hike, and one only…
The Arroyo government is again playing with words, as if it would make the rice crisis (which has now reached…
rice crisisAmong the recommendations put forth at the UNHRC’s review of human rights in the Philippines is the intensification of efforts to investigate, prosecute and punish the perpetrators of extrajudicial killings.
extrajudicial killings, human rightsActivists from the NO DEAL! Movement today swam a distance of around 10 kilometers as part of continuing efforts to…
jpepaA curious thing is happening over at Brian Gorrell‘s. Gorrell, as you should know by now, put up his wildly…
blogging, brian gorrell“God’s policy is antiquated and it cannot help the people who are reeling from poverty,” Duterte said during his weekly television program in Davao City. “We should study the situation of our country. There are families who have 10 or 12 children but their parents cannot feed them because they don’t have jobs.”
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