ON Sunday night, the members of the Free Legal Assistance Group, which rose to prominence during the Marcos era for its work defending political prisoners and victims of human rights abuses, gave a warm and moving tribute to Haydee Yorac, who died last...

ON behalf of the global civil society, Prof. Leonor Briones, Philippines convenor of the Social Watch network of NGOs, addressed the United Nations World Summit and asked world leaders to fulfill old and new promises."This General Assembly is not the...

NEARLY nine of 10 household heads support a Senate bill that states the rights and privileges of household helpers, according to the Social Weather Stations. The research organization’s Aug. 26-Sept. 5 Social Weather Survey estimated the number of...

THE U.S. Department of Justice has released the rap sheets filed against Michael Ray Aquino, a former ranking official of the Philippine National Police, and Leandro Aragoncillo, an intelligence analyst of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The two...

FOLLOWING the call of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines for a continued search for the truth, the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) yesterday urged the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to investigate allegations of...

VETERAN Palace journalist, Ellen Tordesillas, writes in the current issue of PCIJ's i Report about the work being done to re-package the president's image, with the help of the global public relations firm, Burson-Marsteller. Even as Burston-Marsteller's...

BETWEEN 2001 and the second half of 2003, the Philippines paid over P100 million to various American lobby firms, Sen. Ralph Recto said yesterday; the government, he said, should make a transparent accounting of what its lobbying has achieved. Sen....