Would ending Endo contribute to inclusive economic growth? Part (1)
Yesterday, because of my executive background and interest in People and Organization Management and Development, I eagerly attended the presentation of the paper written...
The integration of poverty alleviation in the strategy for economic growth
Filipinos want to live a “simple and comfortable life.” The National Economic and Development Authority or NEDA’s “Ambisyon Natin 2040” Report shows 79.2 percent of Filipinos want...
How political views affect the teaching of Martial Law
There is a popular saying that reads, “history is written by the victors.” The stories of the past depend on who the storytellers are, making...
The Campaign Against Drugs – Will Drug Testing in Schools Impact Our Drug Crisis?
Since the campaign period, President Rodrigo Duterte was adamant in crushing the illegal drug trade menacing the country. He has made it his top priority...
The Effects of Lawlessness to Children in the War Against Drugs
The prevalence of illegal drug use in our society has been quite alarming. With exposé after exposé coming from President Rodrigo Duterte himself, it is hard...
Know your rights primer
With the rise in the numbers of alleged drug users and pushers being arrested, killed, and compelled to surrender, the Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG)...
The Promdi President
Digong Duterte’s first state of the nation address should be noted for its style as well as its substance. Those who focus on the text...
Rights body mounts testy probe of 103 drug killings and counting
By Karol Ilagan Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism ON TOP of Bayani Arago’s desk at the Commission on Human Rights National Capital Region (CHR...
Big kill of small fry, puny drugs haul, defies PNP rules
(This is an article by the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism. Reposted with permission.) Duterte’s war: Breaking bad? Big kill of small fry, puny drugs haul,...
5 things Duterte’s first SONA will be (and will not be) and hints on what the next 6 years will be like
The first State of the Nation Address or SONA of any Philippine president can arguably be considered as one of his or her most important...
Know your rights: a primer of the Free Legal Assistance Group of human rights lawyers
Amid the rising numbers of casualties in the Duterte administration’s war on drugs, the “Know your Rights!” primer of the Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG)...
A round table discussion with PCO Secretary Martin Andanar
Presidential Commission Office (PCO) Secretary Martin Andanar met with Blog Watch and Mae Paner to discuss about the changes in the PCO and our concerns....
PNP stats, May 10-July 10, 2016 In 9 wks, drug war tally: 192 killed, 8,110 arrested, 35K ‘surrendered’
By the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism THE WAR on drugs in the last nine weeks — or even before Rodrigo R. Duterte took his...
PNP stats on the drug war In 2 weeks: 135 killed, 1,844 arrested, 66K ‘surrenderees,’ 43K homes ‘visited’
By the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism BY OFFICIAL POLICE DATA, from July 1 to 13 this year, the Duterte administration’s war on crime...
Duterte reveals that the war on drugs is bigger and badder than we thought
And we thought we knew how big our drug problem was. In a press conference held yesterday in Malacanang Palace, President Rodrigo Duterte unraveled a...