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...
44 years after Martial law , we have come full circle.
I was 15 years old when Proclamation 1081 was declared by former President Ferdinand Marcos on September 21, 1972. I was skeptical . My parents seemed...
Citizen Engagement: A Mission Possible?
The participative role of citizens in governance is still quite new for a lot of Filipinos. We have long left governance to our elected officials...
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...
Internet Trolls: Why they never really went away… at all
If you had the chance to do something so bad, with the assurance that no one will ever know you did it, will you do...
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...