Year: 2008

Reproductive health (RH) rights non-governmental organizations and (NGOs) and women’s rights advocates joined hands in condemning President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s policies toward reproductive health and women’s rights to sexual education and freedom to choose of what family planning methods they want to use. They said Arroyo’s pro-Church RH policies are very “anti-women, anti-family, and very non-scientific.”…

Did retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan, Jr. mastermind the killing of Davao City radio journalist Ferdinand Lintuan? This question has come to the fore in the wake of revelations by Mayor Rodrigo Duterte that Palparan was sighted in Davao City two weeks before Lintuan’s killing, and that he had been hired as a military consultant…