THE Supreme Court voted 8-7 today to declare as unconstitutional the scuttled memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain (MOA-AD) between the Arroyo government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
The MOA-AD, the third agreement to have come...
WHETHER working amid the backdrop of conflict or peace, journalists in Mindanao are having it the worst -- getting killed, attacked, abducted, charged with libel and, in at least one instance, even declared as persona non grata.
The latest to be killed...
COVERAGE of the conflict in Mindanao seldom tackles its economic and social costs beyond the deaths and injuries among combatants and civilians caught in the crossfire, damage to property and infrastructure, and to some extent, deaths and illnesses...
THE reputation for accuracy and freedom from bias of journalists rests on the credibility of their sources. This is even more so when they are covering conflicts as well as peace efforts, as is the case in Mindanao.
For the sixth session of the...
"WE are supposed to enlighten, to simplify things. But if we are as confused as all the rest, why pass on our confusion and ignorance to the rest of the world?"
Carol Arguillas, editor of MindaNews, and founder and president of the Mindanao News and...
LAWYER Zainudin Malang, founder and executive director of the Bangsamoro Center for Law and Policy, presented a civil-society view of how the media covered the events and issues that emanated from the bungled signing of the memorandum of agreement on...
A FIXATION on single-issue analysis contributed to the current state of "unpeace" that now prevails in several parts of Mindanao in the wake of the bungled signing of the memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain (MOA-AD) between the Arroyo government...