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R2KRN: FOI advocates joining Luneta indignation on budget scam

CMFR is a member of the Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition (R2KRN)—a network of about 160 organizations and individuals from various social sectors and civil society groups, which have long been campaigning for the passage of a Freedom of Information (FOI) Act. The Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition...

CMFR statement on SB380 (“Magna Carta for Journalists”): WELL-INTENTIONED, BUT…

The "Magna Carta for Journalists" (Senate Bill No. 380) Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada has re-filed before the 16th Congress (he earlier filed it before the 14th Congress) declares it State policy for journalists to have "security of tenure, humane conditions of work and a living wage." It lists as its...

FFFJ: Corruption and the Killing of Journalists

Statement of the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists Janet Napoles and company may not have merely orchestrated the P10 billion pork barrel scam. It now seems that they could also be among the beneficiaries of the misuse of P728 million in fertilizer funds in 2004. Whistle-blower Benhur Luy has...

FFFJ: One More Delay in a Long List of Delays

THE DEFERMENT of the arraignment of two of the principal accused in the November 23, 2009 Ampatuan town massacre adds to the already long list of delays in the judicial process that for four years have thrown one obstacle after another in the path of credibly concluding the trial...

Our dream, our rightPass the People’s FOI Act now!

Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition statement.

Appeal to take necessary actions against a Zamboanga del Norte police officer (UPDATED)

The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) wrote the Department of Interior and Local Government to to take necessary actions against a police director involved in unjustly arresting radio broadcaster in Dipolog City, Zamboanga del Norte.

Ortega family on the gunman’s conviction

A statement from Michaella Ortega, May 8, 2013 CELLPHONES AND gadgets cost more than my father’s life. This remains to be the main takeaway from the case against confessed gunman Marlon Recamata who was paid a measly amount of 10,000 pesos to kill my father, Doc Gerry Ortega....

A Reminder

THE NEW York-based Committee to Protect Journalists’ (CPJ) Impunity Index, for the fourth year in a row, has ranked the Philippines the third worst country in the world, after Iraq and Somalia, in terms of the number of unresolved journalist murders per million inhabitants. The...

Joint statement: Media rights groups slam detention of Al-Jazeera journalists in Malaysia and calls for greater transparency

We, the undersigned organizations which advocate for media freedom and responsibility in South-East Asia, regret theunnecessary detention and interrogation of three Al-Jazeera journalists who were reporting an armed standoff near Lahad Datu, Sabah, on 20th Feb 2013.

FOI Bill: Certify Urgent!

THE FREEDOM of Information bill (FOI) in the Senate and in the House of Representatives has advanced despite the odds, having passed the respective committees. FOI is now at a critical juncture, which will determine its passage in this 15thCongress.

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