May 6, 2021, Jodesz Gavilan MANILA, Philippines Karapatan says supporting the Duterte government means ‘signing off not only on the constriction of democratic and civic space in the country but also [on] the rise of authoritarianism’ Human rights groups on Wednesday, May 5, urged the Canadian government to take necessary action against the “epidemic of…
Editorial, Philippine Daily Inquirer / May 05, 2021 The struggle of the Cordillera people in the martial law era against the proposed damming of the mighty Chico River has again been given its rightful prominence with the restoration of the monument to Macli-ing Dulag and his comrades in its original spot on the Bontoc-Kalinga Road…
By: Frances Mangosing – Reporter/ INQUIRER.net / May 04, 2021 MANILA, Philippines—Retired Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio on Tuesday (May 4) said President Rodrigo Duterte’s denial that he brought up the West Philippine Sea during the presidential campaign in 2016 was tantamount to “grand estafa.” In a stinging rebuke of the President, Carpio…
Otto de Vries, a Catholic lay missionary from the Diocese of Rotterdam, who has done pastoral work among the workers and urban poor in the Philippines for three decades, has returned to the Netherlands after being red-tagged and his permanent visa revoked by the Duterte government. The Philippine Bureau of Immigration (BI) in February canceled…
May 3, 2021, Hannah Dayan Manila, Philippines If the Philippines has community pantries, other countries have soup kitchens and food banks that have fed people during the COVID-19 crisis People from all over the world have done what they can to address the ongoing pandemic. Some have doubled their efforts in feeding the poor through…
May 3, 2021, Audrey Azoulay, Maria A. Ressa , Gwen Lister ‘Being able to access information is not enough; we must also be able to assess it critically’ This year, World Press Freedom Day comes at a difficult time, characterized by ongoing attacks on journalists, the viral spread of false information online, and the weakening…
Mario Alvaro Limos, Esquire Philippines, 29 April 2021 China was probably surprised when the Philippines unleashed a barrage of diplomatic protests from March to April when the former occupied Julian Felipe Reef. Imagine its surprise when the Philippines sent its most advanced warships to challenge its presence in the West Philippine Sea. China might have been…
By: Marlon Ramos – Reporter / Philippine Daily Inquirer / May 01, 2021 President Duterte himself has become one of the obstacles to the enforcement of the Philippines’ victory in the arbitral court by spreading his false notion that China is in control of the West Philippine Sea (WPS), said retired Supreme Court Associate Justice…