March 17, 2017 | In: 2016 Elections, Access to Information, Civil Society, Congress Watch, Environment Watch, Freedom of Information, Governance, In the News, Internet, Investigative Reports, Online Research, Peace and Conflict, Public Health, Rodrigo R. Duterte, The Economy, The Internet, The Judiciary, Women, Youth and Education
STATEMENT OF THE RIGHT TO KNOW, RIGHT NOW! COALITION
THE ISSUANCE on July 23, 2016 of Executive Order No. 2 on Freedom of Information drew support from the Right to Know, Right Now! Coalition as a signal of the commitment of the Duterte Administration...
March 3, 2017 | In: Drugs & Crime, Duterte, Freedom of Information, General, Governance, Human Rights, Investigative Reports, Peace and Conflict, Rodrigo R. Duterte, The Judiciary
PCIJ stands by its story, "Lascañas pens tell-all journal: Duterte rule 'a Divine Trap',” which ran on Feb. 28, 2017.
We take strong exception to unfounded claims of columnist Rigoberto Tiglao of The Manila Times that the story was "fake news"...
October 3, 2016 | In: 2016 Elections, Access to Information, Campaign Finance, Congress Watch, Freedom of Information, Governance, Investigative Reports, Money Politics, Paper Chase, Rodrigo R. Duterte
By Karol Ilagan
CITATION. PCIJ Executive Director Malou Mangahas (second from left) with Philippine Statistics Authority's National Statistician. Dr. Lisa Grace S. Bersales, Economic Planning Secretary Ernesto M. Pernia, and Dr. Johannes P/ Jutting,...
July 26, 2016 | In: 2016 Elections, Civil Society, Drugs & Crime, Duterte, Freedom of Information, Human Rights, In the News, Investigative Reports, Local Government, Peace and Conflict, The Judiciary
By Karol Ilagan
Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
ON TOP of Bayani Arago’s desk at the Commission on Human Rights National Capital Region (CHR NCR) is a pile of clippings now about an inch thick. The news reports, which Arago began...
July 25, 2016 | In: 2016 Elections, Access to Information, Civil Society, Congress Watch, Drugs & Crime, Duterte, General, Governance, Human Rights, In the News, Investigative Reports, Journalist Killings, Peace and Conflict, Rodrigo R. Duterte, SONA, The Judiciary
BANGKAY SA BANGKETA... kasi nga drug pusher ako.
This is the sad refrain in a sardonic poem that a young Filipina wrote and read in a video she posted last week on her Facebook page. It does not matter, she averred, that the so-called drug pushers...
June 21, 2016 | In: Access to Information, Asia IJ Conference, Civil Society, Congress Watch, Cross Border, Data Journalism, Free Expression - Asia, Freedom of Information, Governance, Investigative Reports, Journalist Killings, The Internet
By Sheila Coronel*
From Global Investigative Journalism Network
Editor's Note: We are pleased to present this transcript of the keynote speech by Columbia University's Sheila Coronel at the 2016 conference of Investigative Reporters and Editors on...
May 7, 2016 | In: 2016 Elections, Access to Information, Campaign Finance, Congress Watch, Data Journalism, Governance, In the News, Investigative Reports, Local Government, Money Politics, Noynoy Watch
By Rowena F. Caronan
Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
LOCAL POLITICAL families, not political parties, are important to national politicians as they mobilize electoral support, says political scientist Julio C. Teehankee. National...
