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When a government creates specialized legal protections for politicians while omitting community defenders, it risks engaging in elite self-preservation.
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For those who depend on public healthcare, the struggle may also involve long waiting times, limited facilities, understaffed hospitals and administrative requirements that can make an already difficult experience even more burdensome.
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“Dropping an article does not erase the allegations,” Mupas said. “We urge that the investigation and trials continue through other avenues.”
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Lawyer Arvin Dexter Lopoz, spokesperson of the Union of Peoples’ Lawyers in Mindanao (UPLM), said the rules formally recognize human rights and people’s lawyering as legitimate career paths after years without institutional recognition.
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The safety of journalists covering protests is tied to the public’s ability to access information about police conduct, the exercise of civil liberties and the grievances of affected communities.
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Children do not necessarily need to know the specific law that protects them, she said; what matters is that they experience that protection when they need help.
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The report featured witness Gracioso’s allegations that he delivered suitcases of cash to members of the Duterte family on the alleged instructions of former House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco.
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Atty. Kristina Conti, assistant counsel to the victims of the war on drugs trial at the ICC, called the reward staggering, possibly the highest amount offered for a fugitive.
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Former Kabataan Party-list Rep. Raoul Manuel believed that Lipton’s visit to Davao signals that the U.S. is monitoring the political developments leading to the 2028 elections.
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Unprogrammed appropriations themselves are not unconstitutional, the court ruled, but must have clear limits and safeguards to ensure fiscal discipline, transparency and accountability.
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Kat Dalon of Sabokahan Unity of Lumad Women said military intelligence personnel repeatedly visited her and those of fellow activists, asking about their whereabouts and associates.
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Jean Lindo, chair of Gabriela Southern Mindanao and a physician, said the debate over abortion decriminalization should be approached primarily as a public health issue.
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UDDRA president Jeffrey Cuyos said the figures only show the difficulties they face as fuel and other commodities become more expensive while their earnings remain unchanged.
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“The main reasons are farmers’ lack of access to and ownership of land, seeds, among other resources, rapid crop and land use conversion, and the rice liberalization law that furthers our import dependence,” Fuentes told Davao Today.
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Kevin Daet, 34, a construction laborer who has lived in the community since childhood, said rebuilding remains uncertain as his family waits for financial assistance and clearance to return to their property.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that generative AI tools can produce false, inaccurate, biased, or incomplete health information, potentially putting people at risk when they rely on those responses to make medical decisions.
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“The debt being paid by ordinary Filipinos continues to balloon to fund politicians’ pork barrel allocations and political dynasties, fascism, and foreign interests, particularly the Pax Silica initiative of the United States and Israel,” Tinio said.
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Decriminalizing abortion is not an anti-life stance; it is a pro-health, human rights-centered approach grounded in Primary Health Care principles.
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People involved in questionable transactions sometimes claim they relied on notarial barkers to secure notarization without personally appearing before lawyers, Lopoz said.
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The relaunch comes after the Supreme Court announced on Sept. 16 that Congress has a mandatory constitutional duty to enact an anti-political dynasty law, ruling that its failure to do so for 39 years constitutes grave abuse of discretion.
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