October, 2012
Anger over slow pace of hunt for priest's killers – Suspects still evade arrest one year on
October 19, 2012 · , Kerima Bulan T. Navales, Davao City, Philippines, October 16, 2012
A year after Italian missionary priest Fausto “Pops” Tentorio was brutally murdered in the compound of his parish church in Arakan in North Cotabato, the quest to bring his killer to justice continues. A man walked up to Father Tentorio on October 17 last year and shot him eight times in the chest and then sped […]
Read More...Jimmy Savile was protected
October 19, 2012 · , Ros Coward, guardian.co.uk, Thursday 18 October 2012 11.54 BST
Jimmy Savile was protected by the media’s defence of the status quo Even in places where you might expect most awareness, my experience tells me paedophilia doesn’t get taken seriously. The revelations about Jimmy Savile have rightly induced soul searching among those who dealt with him in the media. How did he get away with […]
Read More...FAIR TRADE IS JUSTICE IN ACTION
October 18, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
FAIR TRADE IS JUSTICE IN ACTION By Fr. Shay Cullen Email: [email protected] (Fr. Shay’s columns are published in The Manila Times,in publications in Ireland, the UK, Hong Kong, and on-line.) There is good news in the Philippines these days as the framework agreement for a way forward towards a peace settlement in Mindanao has been […]
Read More...State-backed abduction will be a thing of the pastLagman
October 18, 2012 · , Karen Boncocan, INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines — Before long the Philippines may enact the very first national law in Asia which criminalizes enforced disappearances or the “arrest, detention, abduction or any other form of deprivation of liberty by agents of the State.” And if passed, Albay Representative Edcel Lagman said on Wednesday that it would cover victims of involuntary […]
Read More...16M Filipinos malnourished
October 18, 2012 · , Tarra Quismundo, Ana G. Roa, Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines. The number of undernourished Filipinos increased by two million in the past two years, according to a study conducted by international food and agricultural organizations. The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012, a global assessment of nutrition levels, showed that 16 million Filipinos are considered undernourished from 2010 to […]
Read More...Mayor on trial for rape of girl seeks reelection
October 18, 2012 · , Robert Gonzaga, Inquirer Central Luzon
OLONGAPO CITY—A Zambales mayor undergoing trial on a charge of raping a 12-year-old girl two years ago is seeking another term to the dismay of the girl’s family. “Instead of the mayor’s office, [Rodriguez] should be in jail,” the girl’s mother said in a telephone interview on Sunday. Mayor Jose Rodriguez of San Marcelino town […]
Read More...Groups call for law change on child soldiers
October 17, 2012 · , ucanews.com reporter, Manila, Philippines October 16, 2012
International rights groups today called on the Senate to remove a provision in a draft law that allows for the parents of child soldiers to be prosecuted. “The draft language sets too low a bar for criminalization and is open to misuse and misinterpretation,” said Child Soldiers International and Human Rights Watch in a joint […]
Read More...Rights group says impunity must be stopped – Government to face UN in Geneva
October 17, 2012 · , ucanews.com reporter, Manila, Philippines, October 15, 2012
Amnesty International yesterday called on the government to take concrete action to end impunity for members of the security forces responsible for torture and other human rights violations. The call came ahead of the country’s appearance before the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva today. Government representatives were to present a report detailing measures taken to […]
Read More...The RP-MILF framework agreement (1)
October 17, 2012 · , Fr. Joaquin G. Bernas S. J. , Philippine Daily Inquirer
There is much rejoicing over the framework agreement reached between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front about achieving peace in Muslim Mindanao. There is justification for the rejoicing mainly because we have overcome the stalemate that resulted from the rejection of the 2008 Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) by the […]
Read More...Government and rebels ink landmark deal
October 17, 2012 · , Joe Torres and Cong Corrales, Manila, Philippines, October 15, 2012
The government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) signed a landmark peace agreement today aimed at ending four decades of conflict on the southern island of Mindanao. Negotiators from both sides signed the “framework agreement” at the presidential palace in Manila, with President Benigno Aquino and MILF chairman Al Haj Murad Ebrahim looking on, at […]
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