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Philippines: Aquino a failure in human rights compliance, says HRW

By Tonyo Cruz Mon, May 21, 2012 3:00PM UTC View Comments

An international human rights watchdog today did not mince words in highlighting the Aquino administration’s “failures” in protecting human rights of Filipinos. New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) made the initial assessment in the run-up to the Aquino government’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) before the United Nations Human Rights Council set for May 29. According...

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Is President Aquino allowing legal shortcuts against Chief Justice Corona?

By Tonyo Cruz Tue, May 15, 2012 11:53PM UTC View Comments

The impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona has so far produced a mixed bag in terms of possible outcomes. What is obvious though is how President Aquino, the chief architect of the oust-Corona enterprise, has authorized legal and political shortcuts to help advance the impeachment case. Take, for example, the presentation given by Ombudsman...

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No trees in Aquino’s ‘righteous path’ to Baguio City?

By Tonyo Cruz Wed, Apr 11, 2012 2:12AM UTC View Comments

Citizens of Baguio City poke fun at SM's trademark line "we've got it all for you" as they fight a plan to destroy the summer capital's last green zone.

President Aquino has so far been mum about the outcry of the residents of Baguio City asking for the protection of the summer capital’s last remaining patch of trees. This is so disappointing, for here is an opportunity for the President to make his Daang Matuwid (righteous path) principle a concrete reality. Mr. Aquino himself...

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Philippines: Take 5 on the impeachment trial of Renato Corona

By Tonyo Cruz Wed, Jan 18, 2012 12:49PM UTC View Comments

Beleaguered Philippine Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona Monday. Pic: AP.

The impeachment trial against Chief Justice Renato C. Corona which has started in the Senate has all the hallmarks of a new stage of combat between warring factions of the Philippines’ ruling classes. On one hand is President Benigno Aquino III and the Liberal Party-led House majority which instigated the impeachment proceeding. According to them,...

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Philippines: Court gives land held by Aquino’s family to farmers

By Tonyo Cruz Thu, Nov 24, 2011 2:35AM UTC View Comments

The Philippines Supreme Court has issued a unanimous decision, expected to reverberate across the feudal Philippine countryside, which effectively hands over ownership of the bulk of the Hacienda Luisita to its farmers and farm workers. ABS-CBN reports: Saying farmer-beneficiaries will not benefit from distribution of shares of stock, the Supreme Court has ordered the distribution...

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