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Justice delayed

Statement of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) on the 15th month since the Ampatuan Massacre of November 23, 2009 THE TRIAL of those formally accused in the Ampatuan Massacre, numbering 51 out of the 195 individuals suspected of involvement in it, is ongoing and should be...

Ending Impunity

Statement of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility in commemoration of the first anniversary of the Ampatuan Massacre THE 2009 Ampatuan Massacre of 58 men and women including 32 journalists was a reminder and a warning to both the Philippine press and the entire country. The Philippines is...

Warning to media

By the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) For more information please contact CMFR: (+63 2) 894-1314/894-1326/840-0903/840-0889 staff@cmfr-phil.org www.cmfr-phil.org www.twitter.com/cmfr THE CENTER for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) reiterates its warning, made in many other instances in the past, that media failure to regulate themselves will invite government...

Legacy or Ignominy: Will Speaker Nograles and his House ratify the Freedom of Information Bill?

by The Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition 4 June 2010 When the leaders of the House of Representatives want a measure passed, we have seen them find a way. But when they want a measure aborted, they simply stay away and quibble about the absence of quorum. For...

Towards A State Policy of Ending Impunity

A statement by the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) on the sixth month of the November 23 massacre of 32 journalists and media workers ]

The Real Obscenity

Statement of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility on the Agra order to drop the multiple murder charges against Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Governor Zaldy Ampatuan Zaldy and Mamasapano Mayor Datu Akmad Ampatuan in connection with the Ampatuan Massacre THE ORDER of acting Justice Secretary Alberto...

A Costly Mistake (updated)

Statement of the Center for Media Freedom and Resposibility (CMFR) on the ABS-CBN April 8 Story on the “Caluag Document” ABS-CBN erred in the manner in which it aired that fake document on the mental health of Senator Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III. The error was not so much driven...

JUSTICE FOR MARLENE ESPERAT WILL HELP END IMPUNITY

Statement of the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists (FFFJ), the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) and the Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) on the 5th anniversary of the killing of Marlene Esperat FIVE YEARS have passed since Marlene Esperat was killed in Tacurong City in the...

ABS-CBN News Online misread the CMFR-SEAPA March 3 Statement

The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) takes exception to ABS-CBN News Online’s interpretation of its March 3 statement, which it issued with the Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA), that we “slammed the media” for being “partly to blame for the slow progress of court cases” in the...

Lest We Forget

Revised statement of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility and the Southeast Asian Press Alliance on the 100th day of the Ampatuan Massacre A hundred days have passed since the massacre of 32 journalists and media workers in Maguindanao, Southern Philippines, together with 26 others. The principal suspect...