MANILA (PNA) – Foreign businessmen on Monday threw strong support behind the ratification of the Bicameral Conference Committee Report of HB 3732 (Freedom of Access to Information Bill).
In a statement, the Joint Foreign Chamber (JFC) said that if the bill is passed into law it will not only provide a clear, uniform and speedy procedure [...]

(Editor’s Note: The radio guesting of Atty. Nepomuceno Malaluan, lead convenor of the Right to Know, Right Now! network and the Access to Information Network, was held on January 11, exactly a week before the 14th Congress resumed session. Through effective lobby work and advocacy of civil society groups, the Senate ratified on February 1 [...]

MANILA (Dec. 10) — People’s access to information is key in reducing corruption in local and national government, which is now the core issue in the crisis in Maguindanao following the abduction and slaughter of 57 people in the country’s worst election-related violence and the world’s deadliest single attack against journalists.

After more than 10 years as a devoted teacher and three years as a principal, Gabriel Canizares will soon have an elementary school in Patikul, Sulu named after him.

The west has a simple test of democratic virtue – the holding of elections and the protection of personal liberties. But is it really that simple?
More than 10 years after the end of the cold war, the paradox of “people’s power” grows clearer by the day. Democracy, in the sense of a popular uprising against [...]

The International News Safety Institute urges journalists in the Philippines to resist calls to carry guns following the horrific massacre in Maguindanao.
INSI believes that the safety of journalists would not be improved, and in fact probably would be diminished, were they to carry weapons.
“Journalists increasingly are being targeted largely because they have lost, in the [...]

“The freedom to live life as my spirit and conscience allows with acceptable rules to ensure equality, order and justice to all.”
Chino Gaston
GMA News Reporter

“When we can speak freely without fear, when we can move without restrictions.”
Aira B. Corpuz, 14
High School Freshman
Dominican College, Sta. Rosa Laguna

“Democracy is equality and freedom that goes beyond what is written on paper, determined by an elite few.  It is freedom that can be felt tangibly i.e. more options that economic freedom provides, empowerment that enables one to make informed decisions for himself.   A country where money and education are limited to the few [...]

Democracy is when people have the right to know why others have more than what is due them, and demand a truthful explanation.
It is also when the poor and marginalized are able to assert their rights, and win them.
Rorie Fajardo
Philippine Human Rights Reporting Project & CCJD