October 24, 2013 · Posted in: Access to Information, Civil Society, Freedom of Information, General, Governance, Human Rights, Journalist Killings, The Judiciary
WITH SO MANY pork barrel whistleblowers coming out of the woodwork to spill the beans on their bosses, it may be good for them to know just how much immunity they can get for their testimony. By their very nature, state witnesses are supposed to be given...
October 22, 2013 · Posted in: Access to Information, Civil Society, Freedom of Information, General, Governance, Human Rights, Journalist Killings, The Judiciary
IT HAS BEEN SAID that the manner by which the government fails to protect witnesses who are vital to the solution of grave crimes is already a crime in itself. The Witness Protection Program (WPP) is in such a serious need of both support and reform that...
October 21, 2013 · Posted in: 2013 Elections, Access to Information, Civil Society, Congress Watch, Freedom of Information, General, Governance, Investigative Reports
ON October 14, 2013, PCIJ received a five-page letter from Dasmariñas City Rep. Elpidio F. Barzaga Jr., a response to the first two parts of PCIJ’s four-part series on the use of the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or pork-barrel funds...
October 21, 2013 · Posted in: 2013 Elections, Access to Information, Civil Society, Congress Watch, Freedom of Information, General, Governance, Human Rights
MAKING VAST AMOUNTS OF data available to the public is not enough, and in fact should not be used as a replacement for true accountability. This was the message delivered by World Bank governance specialist Hanif Rahemtullah during the launch of the...
October 18, 2013 · Posted in: 2013 Elections, Access to Information, Civil Society, Congress Watch, Freedom of Information, General, Governance, Media
TRUE TRANSPARENCY means that government should empower its citizens with the means to participate in the decision making processes. This was the message delivered by Senator Grace Llamanzares-Poe, chairperson of the Senate committee on public...
October 17, 2013 · Posted in: Access to Information, Civil Society, Freedom of Information, General, Governance, Human Rights, Media
by Cong B. Corrales LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL media groups slammed the proposed Magna Carta for Journalists filed recently in the lower house of Congress by Reps. Rufus and Maximo Rodriguez, calling it "illogical" and "misleading." The bill, while...
October 16, 2013 · Posted in: 2013 Elections, Access to Information, Civil Society, Congress Watch, Freedom of Information, General, Governance, Human Rights, Media
by Cong B. Corrales WILL THE LONG-DELAYED Freedom of Information (FOI) bill finally make it through the congressional wringer? No less than the chairman of the house committee that will deliberate on the FOI says he is "hopeful" that the FOI...
