(Bangkok, January 16, 2025) – The administration of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. initiated some human rights improvements in 2024 but failed to address past and ongoing violations, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2025. “Drug war” killings persisted...

With the midterm elections just around the corner, the public spotlight has shifted from the Bangsamoro plebiscite to the candidates running for local and national public office. But there is one issue that will crop up again once the midterm...

Bulatlat, the country’s oldest alternative digital news outlet, has been repeatedly hit with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks over the last two months, according to a statement released recently by the website’s managing editor, Ronalyn Olea. The Bulatlat statement...

(First of two parts) Ella (not her real name) was brought to the child protection unit of the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) after a jeepney driver raped her when she was five years old. She was abused inside the jeepney...

  In a world where big data is at your fingertips, information has ceased to become knowledge. It is currency. As currency, keeping big data safe is the most sensical thing to do. In this matter, it is clear that the...

“Reporting war should not be approached as breaking news,” the study entitled “Media on Marawi: Coverage of the Siege” said. “It is usually part of a long process involving a breakdown that usually has many causes and bears many...

It was a much anticipated gathering. Close to 700 delegates converged in Manila to hear some of the world’s leading lights share their thoughts on what the future will likely bring. Who wouldn’t want to be part of that? The...

The Philippines is an archipelago of over 7,000 islands, with between 120 and 170 distinct languages, according to various scholars. Ours is a nation of many cultures and many permutations on those core cultural roots, written and spoken languages and...

If you are a journalist, you would know that the term “fake news” is an oxymoron; a contradiction in terms. News by definition is the accurate reportage of an event. So, if it is accurate, how can it be...

The mess that is the Dengvaxia issue as it stands now does nothing for the public good. Over the last week, the public saw just how much the government did not get its act together: Politicking trumped actual concern...

To be goaded to question a legal decision is one thing; to be reduced to a speechless wreck is another. This, apparently, is where the train slammed against the tree: When I read a Philippine Daily Inquirer report saying that...

What is federalism? It’s word that needs to be properly defined especially with the current moves to amend the Constitution, a move that is being pushed by President Rodrigo Duterte and his allies in Congress. Changing the country’s form of government...