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Category: PWD Vote

  • Categories PHL Vote 2016 PWD Vote Stories Top Stories

    PWDs slap Duterte with a suit for insensitive joke

    May 07, 2016 2:22 AM

    By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL PRESIDENTIAL race frontrunner Rodrigo Duterte, already facing a plunder case filed by Sen. Antonio Trillanes, has been slapped with yet another complaint, this time by disabillity […]

    2016 elections, PWDs

  • Categories By the Numbers PWD Vote

    Mall voting would’ve been easier for PWDs, elderly–survey

    May 06, 2016 2:47 PM

    A DECEMBER 2015 survey by the Social Weather Stations showed that three in five registered voters think voting in malls would be easier for senior citizens and PWDs, given the current […]

    #PHLVOTE2016

  • Categories PHL Vote 2016 PWD Vote Sticky - FrontPage Stories Top Stories

    Disability sector dealt another blow as voting in malls canceled

    May 05, 2016 7:56 PM

    By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL WHEN polling places open on May 9, none of them would be in malls, as had been planned and hailed months before the elections.   On […]

    2016 elections, apps, mall voting, PWDs

  • Categories Banner PWD Vote Video

    These videos will help you get disability right

    Apr 28, 2016 4:33 PM

    Getting it Right: Interacting with PWDs is a package of eight video tutorials that introduce viewers to disability issues and provide tips on how to interact with persons with disabilities. […]


  • Categories PHL Vote 2016 PWD Vote Stories Top Stories

    Duterte violates law prohibiting ridicule of PWDs

    Apr 26, 2016 1:40 AM

      By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS FOR the information of Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte who laughed at Persons with Disabilities while regaling his supporters in Aklan last week, there’s a […]

    #PHLVOTE2016, PWD, Rodrigo Duterte

  • Categories Banner PHL Vote 2016 PWD Vote

    The Aquino Legacy: What has the administration done for PWDs?

    Apr 13, 2016 10:36 AM

    By JAKE SORIANO THE disability sector breathed a sigh of relief when news broke in late March that President Benigno Simeon Aquino III had finally signed into law the bill […]

    2016 elections, PWDs

  • Categories Banner PHL Vote 2016 PWD Vote Stories

    Lack of sign language in first prexy debate traced to aesthetics

    Mar 11, 2016 4:47 PM

    By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL AS the five presidential candidates tried to outsmart each other in the first PiliPinas Debates held in Cagayan de Oro last month, one community watching it […]

    2016 elections, debate, PiliPinas Debates

  • Categories By the Numbers News PHL Vote 2016 PWD Vote Stories

    Voters with disabilities in the 2016 Elections

    Mar 05, 2016 12:36 AM

    By JAKE SORIANO OF the 54 million Filipinos registered to vote in the upcoming presidential elections, 318,013 have disabilities. The interactive map below shows the 10 provinces in the Philippines […]

    2016 elections, infographics

  • Categories PHL Vote 2016 PWD Vote Stories Top Stories

    Ex-solon draws flak for insensitive remark about PWDs

    Mar 01, 2016 3:29 PM

    By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL A former lawmaker is facing criticism for his insensitive remarks on the alleged special treatment given to persons with disabilities (PWDs) in verifying their votes through […]

    2016 elections, PWDs, vote counting machines

  • Categories PHL Vote 2016 PWD Vote Stories Top Stories

    Zero PWD turnout in mock mall voting

    Feb 14, 2016 5:33 PM

    By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL NOT one voter with disability showed up in the only mall precinct used in yesterday’s countrywide mock elections. To disability advocates, the zero PWD turnout defeated […]

    2016 elections, apps, PWDs

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