PCIJ Fellow Cheryl Chan was awarded Best in Investigative Writing for the National Capital Region Category of this year's Philippine Legislators' Committee on Population and Development Foundation Inc. (PLCPD) and the United Nations Population Fund's...

DECISIONS and positions on threats to civil, political and democratic rights under the Arroyo administration All five senior justices vying for the Chief Justice position voted against Executive Order No. 464, allowing high-ranking government officials...

ONLY one Chief Justice candidate attended the public interview this afternoon. However, Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago invoked the equal protection clause of the 1987 Constitution and asked to be excused from the interview. "Considering that my...

DECISIONS and positions on key national political and socioeconomic issues NATIONAL ECONOMY AND PATRIMONY ISSUE SUPREME COURT RULING CONCUR (YES) DISSENT (NO) Is the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act (IPRA)...

BARRING last-minute hitches, the first-ever public interview of the candidates for the next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court will push through as scheduled this afternoon, providing Filipinos for the first time a glimpse of what retiring Chief Justice...

THE Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET) wrapped up last week the first stage of its hearings on the election protest of 2004 vice-presidential candidate and former senator Loren Legarda against Vice President Noli de Castro. The hearings were capped by...

PORN and sex have invaded cyberspace, and from the looks of it, they ain’t that pretty. In fact, they can be downright nastier in their virtual version than in the flesh-and-blood world, says the writer of the first-person piece in i Report’s ongoing...