Archive for December, 2012

By Edz dela Cruz   Despite the formation of specialized anti-trafficking units, special teams of prosecutors and investigators, and the passage of an anti-trafficking law a decade ago, human trafficking continues to be “carried out with...

December 29, 2012 · Posted in: General

We are back!

IT'S NOT AS IF we ever really left; it's just that we are back on the net after an enforced hibernation of sorts. The PCIJ institutional blog and the main portal had been down for more than a week after Google reported the sites as among many that have...

IT’S A BILL that has been sitting through the legislative wringer in the last 14 years but still there is no rush to pass the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, according to Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. Online news reports of remarks made by...

THE SENATE on Monday approved on third and final reading the chamber's version of the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill, even as the version of the House of Representatives is still to be taken up on the floor. Senate Bill 3208, or the People's...

December 17, 2012 · Posted in: General, Media

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THOSE JOURNALISTS aspiring for a Pulitzer Prize (and even those who are not) may be happy to know that Pulitzer Prize winners regularly hold seminars to share valuable knowledge and tips on how to best practice the profession of journalism. Sheila...

IN PCIJ’s analysis, the biggest obstacles to achieving full transparency in the high court seem to be its top two officials: Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes P. A. Sereno and Associate Justice Antonio T. Carpio. The two were among the seven who did not...

ON FEBRUARY 20, 1989, then President Corazon C. Aquino signed into law Republic Act No. 6713, or An Act Establishing a Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials and Employees. The Code, authored by then Senator Rene A. V. Saguisag,...