Uncertainty
ONE YEAR since fighting officially ended in Marawi City, Lanao del Sur, the return home and certainty about the future continue to elude over...
Massacre
WE CONDEMN the massacre of nine sugarcane workers, including four women and two minors, in Hacienda Nene, Barangay Bulanon, Sagay City, Negros Occidental on...
Our marginalized IPs
OCTOBER is Indigenous Peoples’ Month. But more than the rich colors of their traditional attires, the unique beadworks and tattoo, their culture and native...
Party-list system as backdoor for political ambitions
IT IS GOOD that Commission on Elections commissioner Rowena Guanzon, a Negrense, has expressed support to calls to amend Republic Act No. 7941 or...
Raising domestic production
MALACAÑANG has certified as urgent the Rice Tariffication Bill, or the proposed Act Replacing Quantitative Restrictions on Rice with Tariffs and Creating the Rice...
Protect, conserve fishery resources
BEGINNING next month until February 2019 the Visayan Sea would again be closed to fishing activities. The annul three-month “closed season” aims to replenish...
Abusing party-list system
MORE new groups claiming to represent supposedly marginalized sectors have applied to participate in next year’s party-list elections. But former Commission Elections chairman Sixto...
Victims of socio-economic situations
AS A SIGNATORY to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Philippines is primarily responsible in ensuring the welfare of...
Unified approach to disaster mgt
THE PRESIDENT has asked Congress to pass a law creating a “Department of Disaster Management” – an inter-agency body aimed at genuinely strengthening our...
Spin
SO, THE Philippine government has been elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Does this absolve it of rights violations? Does this...