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ACCESS TO "JUSTICE" NOT "JUST TIIS" 12 Jun 2012 | 09:14 am
The issue of lack of access to justice by the poor and vulnerable communities in the Philippines has shown its ugly face to me when I visited Marinduque a week ago. I accompanied a lawyer friend who w...
BULLY INTOLERANCE 15 May 2012 | 04:31 pm
BULLIES SHOULD NEVER BE TOLERATED. Tolerating them only leads them to think that they can go on with what they are doing or, worse, make them believe (without thinking) that what they are doing is rig...
WHEN VIOLENCE BEGETS VIOLENCE 5 May 2012 | 09:14 pm
And she hit him for no reason at all other than the fact that she felt like hitting him. She said he was "makulit". He was crying his heart out telling his side of the story. He could not understand w...
BFFs: Aling Tonya's and Mother Earth 2 Apr 2012 | 08:19 pm
"Could you men not keep watch with me for one hour?". This question might be familiar to some of us. Jesus said this when he prayed at the garden of Gethsemane a few hours prior to his arrest but, if...
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back 27 Mar 2012 | 06:54 pm
At a time when the country is supposed to be celebrating Filipino women and women all over the world, I was surprised to read an opinion posted by one of my Facebook friends about a consolidated enrol...
Listen With Deaf Ears or Else ... 24 Mar 2012 | 03:55 am
Judges are not gods. They are also humans like the ordinary person you see or meet in the streets. The only difference is that they have been appointed by the President from a list of three persons of...
In Celebration of Filipino Women (Part III) 18 Mar 2012 | 04:18 am
You may call the THIRD and the FOURTH GROUP of women in the song "Babae" as fighters for freedom and democracy. Though living in different but significant times in Philippine history, these women have...
In Celebration of Filipino Women (Part II) 10 Mar 2012 | 04:47 am
The FIRST GROUP of women from the song "Babae" are women who appear to the author of the song as having no might (strength). These women are: Maria Clara, Hule and Sisa. All these women are fictional ...
In Celebration of Filipino Women (Part I) 8 Mar 2012 | 02:33 am
Tomorrow (March 8) is "International Women's Day" when the entire world celebrates women and their economic, political and social achievements. In the Philippines, Proclamation No. 224, signed on Marc...
“Aftershocks” of Sendong 5 Mar 2012 | 04:13 am
Huh? But Sendong was not an earthquake, you might tell me. Sendong was a storm that hit the Philippines late last year which caused a lot of flashfloods and mudslides in Mindanao, the hardest hit area...