Menu Home Articles Media Reader, Join Me Injustice of Leila de Lima: The Challenge of Reckoning Even if we knew exactly who are responsible for Leila de Lima’s 7-year wrongful imprisonment, who could make them responsible? The Executive? Congress? Ombudsman? Let us go through them one by one. Sen. Risa Hontiveros called on “the authorities […]
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The barangay elections are over, and it’s time to get involved. As a member of the community, you have the power to suggest members for the Lupon Tagapamayapa, the barangay justice system, and object to the PB’s list. Additionally, the Barangay Assembly allows you to initiate legislative processes, adopt initiatives as a legal process, and hear and pass upon the Sangguniang Barangay’s semestral report. Don’t wait to get involved and ensure good governance in your barangay.
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Menu Home Articles Media Reader, Join Me Focus: The Philippine National Police Efforts to Cure the PNP Oct. 2-8, 2023 There is recent news of a Senate Bill (SB 2449) authored by Senator Bato de la Rosa and three others (Revilla, Ejercito and Zubiri), seeking to introduce “organizational reforms” to the Philippine National Police (PNP).
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We took on Marcos, with his martial law, his dictatorship, his human rights violations, his cronies. We kicked them all out – and took our country back.
“Never again”, we swore.
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President BBM recently declared on August 1 that the Philippines would not rejoin the ICC. No cogent reasons regarding national interest were given — the “we will lose our sovereignty” argument is neither cogent nor accurate as seen below. Note that he, as a Senator in 2011, concurred with the ratification of the Rome Statute of the ICC.
Still Out of the ICC: Is National Interest Involved? Read More »
Politics has reared its ugly head in the JBC, because, as an example, in the Duterte presidency, the short list of candidates presented to him seemed to very often have a San Bedan (his alma mater). The study shows that 40% of his appointees were Bedans, whereas the average for all the other presidents was only 10%.
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Do you know, Reader, that there is RA 9851, signed into law in 2009, two years before we ratified the Rome Statute? Some experts say it is even more strict than the Rome Statute. It punishes superiors who either knew or, owing to the circumstances at the time, should have known that the subordinates were committing or about to commit crimes against humanity? So why has Duterte or anyone not even been charged, much less brought to trial under this law?
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It was in performing her duties as Secretary of Justice that de Lima again stepped on giant toes – like those of Senators Ramon Revilla, Jr., Jinggoy Estrada, and Juan Ponce Enrile, plus five former representatives (some dynastic), plus executives/employees of government corporations – 38 in all. It was in regard to these cases that the sobriquet “Three Furies” was coined.
To remind, Reader: Revilla and Estrada are back as Senators (what does this tell you), and Juan Ponce Enrile, my neighbor, is now very much in the center of power.
A colleague, Gerardo Sicat, asserts that the progress of “Tiger Economies” of East Asia-South Korea, Taiwan, Hongkong and Singapore – was “fueled by the heavy participation of foreign capital”. I refer him to the table on FDI, 1970-2021 which Sonny Africa presented to the Congressional Committee on Constitutional Amendments at the hearing on Thursday, where we were all present. the data show that FDI flows into Taiwan and South Korea were on the whole less, both in absolute terms and in percent of GDP, than FDI flows into the Philippines. In other words, there was no “heavy participation of foreign capital” that Gerry Sicat describes.
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Our Criminal Justice, according to the 2022 World Justice Project’s Rule of Law Index, has the lowest score among 8 factors that comprise the Index. We were given a score of 0.32 (0 is the lowest, showing weakest adherence to the rule of law, and 1 is the highest score showing strongest adherence). For context, the global average is 0.47 and the regional average, i.e. East Asia and the Pacific, is 0.53. That’s how bad our system is.
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