In a report released in March, the UNODC noted that while many Southeast Asian countries have laws to ensure the protection ...

The Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC) designated as terrorists Jose Maria Sison and 18 others it alleged to be members of the central committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the New ...

The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism is seeking candidates for a Managing Director who will bring our nonprofit media organization into the next phase of growth and impact. The PCIJ is a ...

Human rights lawyer Kristina Conti, counsel of the families of drug war victims, said ICC's decisions are hard to predict because its actions are highly compartmentalized. What is clear from the ...

MANILA, Philippines – During the palay harvest season, Rose* spends the day on the phone messaging farmers on the status of harvests. The transaction is borne of routine harking three decades back: ...

The pilot test of the voter registration verification system was the second most expensive budget item in 2019 midterm elections. But the billion-peso project has now become a skeleton in the poll ...

Tomas Moron has lived in a makeshift home on the grounds of the Cebu International Convention Center for five years. He and his neighbors want the Mandaue city government to honor an agreement to ...

Two mothers share how it feels to be prisoners of misery. On top of the uncertainties brought by the Covid-19 pandemic, Marites Asis agonizes over how the justice system has treated her daughter and ...

HAVING HAILED Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016), operationalizing for the Executive branch the people’s constitutional right to information, as a major step forward, the Right to Know, Right Now!

Lack of cooperation from internet service providers, limits to technology, and data privacy rules have hamstrung law enforcers running after perpetrators of online child sex abuse.

At least three bills setting standards to protect the country’s natural resources and attain sustainable development are stuck in the Senate committee on environment, natural resources, and climate ...

When the coronavirus struck and the tourists stopped coming, many tartanilla drivers were forced to find other means of livelihood.