WHO'S afraid of the anti-terror law? Everyone else, it seems, except the terrorists. That is going by how lawyers, activists, legislators, civil libertarians, academicians, religious denominations and ordinary citizens have flocked to the Supreme Court...

THEY were already here way before soap addicts waited for Jang Geum to appear on their TV screens each night or followed the exploits of Jumong. In fact, the latest foreign invasion — from South Korea — began some two decades ago, with businessmen...

MANY have hailed the two-day summit on extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances that was initiated by the Supreme Court as unprecedented, because it recognized the urgent need to tackle the topic, and gathered a broad spectrum of roughly 250...

DEHUMANIZATION is a form of mental conditioning, of categorizing someone as an enemy who must be eliminated without fear or remorse, in the name of national security. Instead of adhering to the prevailing mindset that national security means defeating...

IN line with the ongoing Supreme Court-initiated summit on extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances, the high tribunal released a video to provide delegates, as well as the public, with a situationer on the issue. The statistics on...

BELOW is the text of the keynote speech delivered by Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato Puno to open the two-day National Consultative Summit on Extrajudicial Killings and Enforced Disappearances at the Centennial Hall of the Manila Hotel yesterday....

IN an effort to find lasting solutions to the nagging issue of unabated extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances in the country, the Supreme Court has called for a two-day multi-sectoral summit beginning today. Expected to attend are...