State of lawlessness? What is that?
My friends ask, “State of lawlessness – what’s that?” *Googles* — Professional Heckler (@HecklerForever) September 3, 2016 The tweets that greeted me in the morning was...
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...
The West Philippine Sea dispute: Is it really over or just the beginning?
It is a mum victory for the Philippines. Yesterday, at 5PM PST, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague, Netherlands has awarded to the...
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...
Beating illegal drugs through education in the Duterte presidency
According to President Rodrigo Duterte, we are at the brink of becoming a narco-political state. This was his warning to the country as soon as...
Federalism: Is this the biggest change to happen under Duterte’s watch?
“Change is coming.” This is the slogan of President-elect Rodrigo Roa Duterte. In the recently concluded 2016 Philippine Presidential Elections, Filipinos, along with the rest...
Final preparations are up for the inaugural of the 16th incoming Philippine president
The preparations for the inauguration of Rodrigo Duterte, the incoming 16th President of the Republic of the Philippines are underway. Updates were shared by incoming...