TODAY, Sept. 28, 2012, the world marks the 10th anniversary of International Right to Know Day. In the last decade, 93 countries have passed Freedom of Information Acts, while scores of others have started to work in earnest to pass similar...

TWO LAWS REGULATING THE INTERNET and signed just less than a month apart constitute a double whammy against proponents of free expression, freedom of the press, and free speech. This much was made clear by information technology experts during a...

MORE THAN 200 student leaders from the various student councils of the University of the Philippines system have thrown down the gauntlet and challenged all government officials to make a full disclosure of all transactions they enter into in the full...

REPORTERS HAVE many horror stories on the difficulty of accessing public documents from government custodians, despite the clear assurance of transparency by the 1987 Constitution. As any reporter worth his salt will tell you, the act of sourcing...

A YEAR AND A HALF AGO, Deputy Ombudsman Emilio Gonzalez III was unceremoniously fired by President Benigno S. Aquino III for gross neglect of duty and grave misconduct after he was linked to an alleged extortion attempt that drove a dismissed Manila...

A UNIT OF THE influential Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has joined mounting calls for the 15th Congress to immediately pass the long-delayed Freedom of Information (FOI) bill. The National Secretariat for Social Action - Justice...

ON THIS DAY, 40 years ago, the lengthening shadows finally swept across the land. Asia's first republic, the freest country in the region, was under Martial Law. What followed were some of the darkest days in the country's history, where basic civil...