Victims of former President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war have also opposed his bid for interim release, arguing that this could allow him to evade justice and even pose danger to their security. In a ...

Indigenous land claims The Molbog and Cagayanen tribes of Mariahangin have applied for an ancestral domain title over the island as early as 2005. Their application has not been acted upon by the ...

In the Philippines, the powerful are rarely held to account. Rodrigo Duterte, now in the custody of the International Criminal Court (ICC), is one of few exceptions. The arrest represents a deeply ...

The author is an Assistant Professor (On Study Leave) at the Department of Political Science, Ateneo de Manila University and is currently taking Ph.D. in Political Science at the Department of ...

Historical Resistance to Political Dynasties Kurt Zeus Lequit Dizon, a political science instructor at Saint Louis University here in Baguio City, said there is a correlation between the colonizer’s ...

Finding an Image Style For the visuals, I wanted to use a style that would evoke the story’s original narrative while making clear to viewers that these were merely symbolic imagery. After some trials ...

When he was out on the hustings in the run-up to the 2016 presidential elections, Rodrigo Duterte projected an aura of a brash, irreverent candidate. But his off-the-cuff remarks – “I will ride a ...

Ads worth more than P4 billion have already aired on TV and radio stations across the Philippines even before candidates filed their certificates of candidacy (CoCs) in October 2024. Close to a ...

This Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism report was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network. Last of two parts Workplaces are required to secure permits ...

Unclear environmental, social impacts Apart from the threat of flooding, villagers have also rued MWSS’s failure to disclose the extent of forest cover loss and its impact on biodiversity in the ...