Category: Philippines
A Period of Consequences: The Era of Violence, Hardships, Betrayals, and Perversions under Duterte
Focus on the Global South’s Statement on President Rodrigo Duterte’s midterm State of the Nation...
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Young farmer killed in Bataan over agrarian land
Press Release/Statement 10 JUNE 2019 Hermosa, Bataan – Tensions broke out in Barangay Sumalo after...
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The Election Challenge: Stopping Duterte’s Authoritarian Agenda
FOCUS ON THE GLOBAL SOUTH The midterm elections come at very critical conjuncture. The series of...
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Kalinaw sa Mindanao: Just and Lasting Peace in the Land of Promise
Galileo de Guzman Castillo Halina’t ating pag-usapan ang kapayapaan (Come, let...
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Misogyny, Neoliberalism, and Despotism: Shoring up Duterte’s Anti-Women Agenda
Bianca Martinez Even before Duterte became President, women were already burdened with multiple...
Read MoreSelective Transparency, Inconsistent Accountability:Unpacking Duterte’s Anti-Corruption Campaign
Raphael Baladad “Kung walang corrupt, walang mahirap” (If there is no corruption, there is no poverty) was the rallying call behind Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III’s Presidential campaign in 2010, with the promise of...
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Stopping the Slide: Democracy and Human Rights Decline under Duterte
Joseph Purugganan From his pulpit at the State of the Nation Address (SONA) in...
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In Hot Water: Notes on Metro Manila’s Water Woes
Galileo de Guzman Castillo When the Philippine government decided in 1997 to privatize its...
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Laban-Laban[i]: Cleansing the Augean Stables
“Mother Nature—militarized, fenced-in, poisoned—demands that we take action.” —Berta...
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Surviving in a fading countryside: The plight of small food producers under Duterte
Government responses to the recent crises on food have revealed one thing: uplifting the hands...
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The Price of Taming Inflation
By Joseph Purugganan Chaos has been the brand of the Duterte presidency. His governance has been...
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Why we should not dance to Duterte and Arroyo’s Cha-Cha: Unpacking the neoliberal and authoritarian agenda behind federalism
By Bianca Martinez Since his presidential campaign in 2016, Rodrigo Duterte has promised to change...
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