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Category: News

  • Categories News THE ICC PROBE Duterte's Drug war

    PH notes errors in ICC ruling on drug probe, presses for reversal

    By Ivel John M. Santos and Tatiana Maligro  |  Mar 15, 2023 9:21 AM

    The International Criminal Court (ICC) made “legal errors” in its decision to allow the resumption of its investigation into the Duterte administration’s controversial war on drugs and should reverse the ruling, the government said in its appeal brief filed on March 13. “It is submitted that the Pre-Trial Chamber (PTC) committed several errors of law […]

    Duterte administration, ICC, Menardo Guevarra, War on drugs

  • Categories News

    Farewell, Dean Luis Teodoro

    By Babeth Lolarga, Roby Alampay, Red Batario and Girlie Sevilla Alvarez  |  Mar 14, 2023 8:13 PM

    Today he departed without so much
    As a quick goodbye to those many who

    Luis Teodoro

  • Cavite folks protest reclamation of Manila Bay
    Categories Bullit's Eye News

    Cavite folks protest reclamation of Manila Bay

    By Bullit Marquez  |  Mar 14, 2023 5:37 PM

    Man tampers with God’s design for the Earth disturbing the natural ecosystem and displacing marine life. Photos by Bullit Marquez for VERA Files.

    Cavite, dredging, Manila Bay, PAMALAKAYA

  • Categories Arts & Culture News

    Julie Lluch’s ‘tattoos’ on sculpture are her protest against the drug war

    By Elizabeth Lolarga  |  Mar 11, 2023 7:30 PM

    In her latest exhibition “Chronicles on Skin” at Galerie Stephanie, sculptor Julie Lluch combines sculpture with painting, incorporating “tattoos” in acrylic on her coldcast marble creations. That is not an easy feat because the marble is so smooth the paint slides off. The artist had to keep at it for the paint to adhere.

    Chronicles on Skin, Jullie Lluch

  • Pia Cayetano, Senate photo
    Categories Editor's Pick News Seeing through the Smoke

    The vape genie is out of the bottle

    By Booma Cruz  |  Mar 10, 2023 5:18 PM

    The vape genie is out of the bottle and the Senate, one of the two branches of Congress responsible for letting the genie out, is furious.

    bongbong marcos, e-cigarettes, novel tobacco products, Senate, vape, vape bill

  • Bullits Eye: Babae Kami
    Categories Bullit's Eye News

    Babae kami: Matapang, malakas, mapagmahal

    By Bullit Marquez  |  Mar 08, 2023 7:25 PM

    Nagtipon ang mga kababaihan sa harapan ng opisina ng DOLE bago sila nagmartsa papunta sa Liwasang Bonifacio sa Maynila para sa pagdiriwang ng International Women’s Day bilang pagkilala sa mahalagang papel nila sa lipunan.

    international women's day, Liwasang Bonifacio, Manila

  • Jeepney strike photo 1/10 by Bullit Marquez
    Categories Bullit's Eye News

    Pahirapan sa pagsakay

    By Bullit Marquez  |  Mar 06, 2023 5:50 PM

    Nag-ikot ang batikang photojournalist na si Bullit Marquez ngayong Lunes, Marso 6, para tingnan ang epekto ng jeepney strike sa mga pasahero.

    Elliptical Road, jeepney strike, Philcoa

  • Categories News THE ICC PROBE Duterte's Drug war

    PH urges ICC to dismiss request of drug war families to air side on probe appeal

    By Tatiana Maligro  |  Mar 03, 2023 10:44 PM

    The Philippine government has requested the International Criminal Court (ICC) to deny the request by the families of alleged drug war victims to respond to the state’s appeal to stop the court’s investigation into former president Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody campaign. In its eight-page appeal before the ICC Appeals Chamber, the Office of the Solicitor General […]

    drug war, ICC, International Criminal Court, Office of Solicitor General

  • Categories Editor's Pick News

    Lack of justice compounds pain of palit-katawan victims

    By Mary Ann Manahan, Jean Enriquez, and Janica Rosales  |  Mar 03, 2023 10:37 PM

    Victimized many times over, the pain and the trauma of the women who were subjected to palit-katawan (rape-for-freedom) in the time of former President Rodrigo Duterte’s tokhang cut very deep.

    Palit-katawan, tokhang

  • thumbnail for Families of drug war victims seek permission to air side on PH appeal vs. ICC probe
    Categories News THE ICC PROBE Duterte's Drug war

    Families of drug war victims seek permission to air side on PH appeal vs. ICC probe

    By IVEL JOHN M. SANTOS  |  Feb 27, 2023 5:28 PM

    Some 90 relatives of victims of the war on drugs of the Duterte administration have requested the International Criminal Court (ICC) to allow them to respond to the Philippine government’s appeal to suspend the court’s investigation into alleged crimes against humanity committed during the bloody campaign.

    Duterte's drug war, ICC, victim's family

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