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WHEN panic and confusion brought by massive floodings and destruction set in, government units sometimes disregard procedure and standards to ensure the safety of persons with disabilities. This video discusses the special needs of PWDs during emergencies.

For the deaf community in the Philippines, there has been a lack of action from the government in providing for their need and right to information, communication and education, among others. Bills pending in Congress hope to address this.

By LALA ORDENES “THE election is war, there is no room for gentleness.” This is the advice of newly appointed Comelec Commissioner Grace Padaca to non-governmental organization (NGO) members who are fielding or supporting candidates in the 2013 elections.

By MA. KATRINA ENRIQUEZ
IN the age of the World Wide Web, accessibility does not merely refer to physical spaces. Web designers Rene Orense and Julius Serrano talk about the principles, techniques and features that make websites and online content accessible to persons with disabilities.

Text, photos and video by VINCENT GO WHAT started out as a gathering of a few tattoo artists at a small garage in Malate district in Manila twelve years ago has grown to be the biggest tattoo exposition in the country.

IN her almost 20 years as an election assistant, Neri Bejar had never gotten the chance to work with persons with disabilities (PWDs)—not until last year.

Watch the live stream of President Benigno S. Aquino III’s Third State of the Nation Address.

Text by REYNARD MAGTOTO, Photos and Video by VINCENT GO
ROAD safety advocates launched on Sunday morning a websitein commemoration of the first year of the Decade of Action for Road Safety (DARS), which coincided with the first death anniversary of journalist Lourdes “Chit” Estellawho died in a road accident a year ago.

By EIMOR SANTOS
Photos and video by VINCENT GO
LIFE can be restored at the Marilao-Meycauayan-Obando river system (MMORS). But it will take many, many years. At the least, 10 years. Maybe a hundred years to restore it to its pristine state, the environment activist group Greenpeace said.

By EIMOR SANTOS AND LLOYD REYES
Photos by VINCENT GO
JENNY Tanael, 47, is a wife of a minimum wage earner and mother of a contractual worker. Her eldest son Juan Paolo keeps on hunting for a job each time his five-month contract in a fast food chain expires. Sometimes it takes him six months to find work at another branch of said restaurant. In between jobs, he relies for support on his father who earns less than P 400 per day as a security guard.

Text, photos and video by VINCENT GO
GENETICALLY modified organism walked the streets of Malate yesterday to dramatize the dangers of GMOs in food and the ecology, as environmentalists asked the Supreme Court to stop field trials of genetically modified eggplant.

By VINCENT GO AND REYNARD MAGTOTO
THE family of a volunteer fireman who was mistakenly shot and killed by the Makati police said his killers, and even the media, have tainted the meaning of volunteerism.

Text, photos and videos by VINCENT GO
BEING at Fred's Revolucion is like going back to a time when the cold war was raging and revolutions were the in thing. It calls to mind a scene from the 1960s movie “M.A.S.H.” whose battle-weary soldiers guzzled up after a hectic day on the war front.

Text, photos, and video by VINCENT GO
This year, five men and a woman were crucified, among them 51-year-old Sonny Bautista who has been mute since childhood. Bautista hails from Hagonoy town and has been coming to Kapitangan to be crucified for 14 years now.

Text, photos and video by VINCENT GO
The Lenten season has inspired urban poor groups to hold various protests with the theme “Kalbaryo ng Maralita (Calvary of the Poor),” as urban poor communities braced themselves for more violent demolitions after Holy Week.

Text, photos and video by VINCENT GO
A FIRE that hit the Ever Gotesco Grand Central Mall in Caloocan City late Friday evening continued to rage as of noon Saturday as thick smoke prevented firemen from entering the mall.

Text, photos and video by VINCENT GO
THIS Sunday, the world joins Japan in remembering the devastation caused by the earthquake and tsunami that hit eastern Japan a year ago. Thousands died, and tens of thousands more left homeless when the ground shook and a wall of water fell on Fukushima and surrounding areas on March 11, 2011.

Text by ARTHA KIRA PAREDES
Video by VINCENT GO
THE Commission on Elections is holding this month special registration for persons with disabilities (PWDs) in the Visayas who are qualified to vote in the 2013 midterm elections. This is on top of the ongoing continuing voter registration that ends on Oct. 31.

Text, photos and video by VINCENT GO
THIRTY-ONE farmers affiliated with the peasant federation Task Force Mapalad staged a lightning rally outside the gates of the Malacañang Palace complex to denounce the slow pace of implementation of agrarian reform.

Text, photos, and video by VINCENT GO
Ibon-Ebun, which means "bird and egg," marks the start of the exodus of migratory birds from the swamplands of Candaba. These birds arrive in October and stay up to February to escape the winter chill in other countries.

Text, photos and video by VINCENT GO
A CULTURAL regeneration program held recently at Manabayukan Village in Capas, Tarlac brought together Aeta communities from several villages in the province to strengthen their cultural bonds and preserve their identity and indigenous way of life.

Text, photos and video by VINCENT GO
On the first day of the Year of the Water Dragon, Binondo, Manila became the scene of a huge party filled with street performers and lion dancers and dragons of all shapes, colors and sizes gyrating to the beat of drummers.

By AMER R. AMOR
AT the height of the Sinulog Festival's street dancing competition in Cebu City on Jan. 15, young women, dubbed as “Festival Queens,” carried the Santo Nino and led thousands of dancers and spectators as the city celebrated the feast of the Holy Child Jesus. Far from the madding crowd, just outside the Basilica del Sto. Nino, another group of women sans make-up and colorful costumes danced as well as they offered prayers of gratitude, repentance and supplication to the Holy Child Jesus

Text, photos and video by Vincent Go.
BARELY a week after the Feast of the Black Nazarene, thousands of devotees flocked to the Sto. Niño de Tondo Parish, bearing images of the Child Jesus to have them blessed.