The legal counsel of detained Tacloban journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio and human rights advocate Mariel Domequil has asked the Court of Appeals (CA) to reverse and set aside a Manila court’s decision granting the petition for civil forfeiture filed by the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC). In...
As Filipino filmmakers move heaven and earth to have their works shown to audiences everywhere, one Philippine government agency has redefined film “screening” altogether. The Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) finds itself once more under...
Citizens around the world look are finding it hard to look away from Israel’s atrocities as deaths of thousands of Palestinians continue.
I am not sure where I stand with this year’s Day of the Dead celebration. I certainly commemorate this time among the living, but am just as aware that things could have panned out very differently.
Maggie Wilson has brought national attention to the country’s information disorder once again, a problem so prevalent since the 2016 presidential election that it has become normalized to Filipinos.
The local human rights situation has not improved under the Ferdinand Marcos Jr. administration.
Abduction survivor April Dyan Gumanao will speak at around 5 p.m. (Philippine time) today during a side event of the ongoing 52nd Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) at Geneva’s Palais des Nations.
The Save Masungi Movement has launched an online signature campaign as part of its efforts to protect the Masungi Georeserve, whose Lot 10 is the location that the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) intends to use for its planned headquarters. Based in Baras, Rizal, the...
It’s fairly common in journalism circles, particularly among students and graduates of mass communication-related fields, to discuss the prospects of volunteering for the alternative media.
Commuters from the coastal town of Obando, Bulacan, will tell you that Manila “feels closer” than other cities in its own province. Locals informally consider Obando the” hidden 18th locality of Manila”. In fact, it historically shared its geography with portions of...
There's at least one Leni the Marcos camp would have loved: Leni Riefenstahl, the German director known for her innovative filmmaking techniques. Such was best exemplified by the Nazi propaganda film Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will). Cut to nearly a century...
Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. top bills the reboot of his family’s Malacañang series, after fed-up Filipinos canceled his father’s original run in 1986. Even in their earlier years, historians say that Marcos Jr. played more than a bit role in Martial Law. Many of...
Catherine “Katkat” Dalon considers the University of the Philippines to be the safest place for Lumad students like themselves, whose schools back home have been closed down by the government.