A good read is what I consider Elson Elizaga’s piece on MindaNews about “Selling a Sacred Mountain”.
There are similar cases of such situation in the province of Bukidnon.
From my encounters with respected tribal leaders and elders, it is a long history of clans and tribes that determine what makes a sacred mountain ...
Reports from Manila-based media say the results of the 2008 Bar examinations will be released tonight.
Congratulations to those who made it.Welcome new lawyers! May your flock help solve the problems of the country, help bring peace, justice, order, and progress to our land.
For those who need to take it again, God Bless!
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What’s up about this painful ordeal?
Hope-full stories I think are not of help. We feed on hard facts. We need to know the truth already. We had been kept hanging unfairly.
Are they alive or not? We pray they are.
The two-day probe of the Philippines’ Commission on Human Rights this week on the “summary executions” in Davao City in Mindanao reminds me of the investigations by Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions in 2007.
The inquiries is making waves about the killings not only in Mindanao’s ...
The hearing being held by the Commission on Human Rights on the alleged summary executions in Davao City reached boiling point when Mayor Rodrigo Duterte was subjected to questioning by CHR chair Leila de Lima.
Read this report by MindaNews’ Carolyn Arguillas.
Both the interrogator and the one interrogated stood firm, as it ...
(Letter shared by Jose Torres, Jr. with media practitioners at the “Peace Consultation & Dialogue: Mindanao Media Forum on Peace, Conflict and Security”, hosted by Civil Society Organization Forum for Peace in Iligan City, 7-8th March 2009)
The proposed right of reply measure is by its very nature unconstitutional and only reflects the ...
