VERA Files
Press freedom in the Philippines does not fare better than Singapore and Malaysia, according to the Paris-based World Press Freedom Index of Reporters Without Borders.
Iginiit na “hindi patas” ang ginawa ng Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) ng United Nations na ipahayag ang kanilang mga alalahanin sa mga ulat ng mga paglabag sa karapatang pantao sa bansa, kabilang ang pagkakapatay sa mamamahayag na si Percy Lapid, maling iginiit ni Senate President Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri na ang Pilipinas ay may “napakamalayang media” kumpara sa mga bansang tulad ng Malaysia, Singapore at Vietnam.
The top awards went to stories on press freedom and the effects of the war on drugs.
How can societies – well beyond governments – handle the manipulation of information while maintaining the space for professional media to do their work?
Even the Philippines is seeing challenges to democratic norms that supposedly have deeper roots there after its 1986 ‘People Power’ revolution.
Moves in the House of Representatives to insert the words “”responsible exercise” in the freedom of speech part in the Constitution’s Bill of Rights is a revival of the same attempt made by the government of Gloria Arroyo in 2006.
Clad in black, around 350 journalists, students and advocates joined the “Black Friday Protest for Freedom” Jan. 19 in Quezon City in a show of force to defend press freedom.
The SEC decision repeatedly mentions PDRs. What are those?
By DARLENE CAY Fighting for press freedom is like flying a kite, some journalists found out today. Both have hits and misses and their share of disappointments. Journalists from different media organizations flew about a dozen kites to commemorate World Press Freedom Day at the University of the Philippines Diliman Oblation Grounds. Nine kites had […]