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A Step Backward in the Campaign to End Impunity

AS THE world observes International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists on November 2, the press community in the Philippines carves out a more extended period... Read more

Year Seven After the Massacre: Still No Justice on Sixth Year of Trial

THE SEVENTH anniversary of the massacre of 58 civilians, including 32 journalists, in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao, draws our community once again to gather together, move through the motions... Read more

Ending the Killing of Journalists: State Action Urgently Needed

Statement of the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists The United Nations declared November 2 as International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists. However, press freedom advocates in the... Read more

R2KRN STATEMENT: FOI bill is dead, FOI practice lives

THE FOI Bill is dead. We put the blame squarely on President Aquino and the leadership of the House of Representatives. Read more

R2KRN STATEMENT: FOI Bill Well Positioned for Passage; Citizens to Track Congress Action on FOI

The Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition will monitor the action of Congress on FOI in the coming days, weeks, and months. Read more

FFFJ: The Justice We Seek

Last February 28, the Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecution panel in the Ampatuan, Maguindanao Massacre consolidated cases (AMMC) filed a manifestation before the Regional Trial Court Branch 221 of... Read more

SEAPA: Urgent and decisive response needed to curb media killings

It is a terrible coincidence that there have been three murders of journalists in the Philippines between International Day to End Impunity (IDEI on 23 November) and the International... Read more

The killing of journalists and the culture of violence and impunity

MOSTLY UNREMARKED in these times of corruption and other scandals is the continuing killing of journalists. Eighteen have been killed for their work in the three years of... Read more

Online fury fuels movement in the making

Media reports based on the National Bureau of Investigation’s probe of an alleged P10-billion scam involving the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or pork barrel has revived public interest... Read more

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... Read more