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Read more about the article Truth Cinema Film Festival now on its 2nd year, pursuing campaign to uphold human rights protection and awareness

Truth Cinema Film Festival now on its 2nd year, pursuing campaign to uphold human rights protection and awareness

The film programme gave space to show films on political and civil and economic, social and cultural rights It aims to show the real dire human rights situation in the country and generate discussion, collaboration and collective action on the issues hounding the human rights situation in society today. These films tackle the whole range of human rights, from economic, social and cultural rights to the political and civil rights.

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Read more about the article Benjaline Hernandez: Campus Journalist and Human Rights Defender

Benjaline Hernandez: Campus Journalist and Human Rights Defender

Eight years since her death, Hernandez’s family found a ray of hope when the UNHRC issued its decision in August 2010. The Committee found the Philippine government guilty of violating Article 6 of the Covenant which states, “Every human being has the inherent right to life. This right shall be protected by law. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life.”

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Read more about the article Today’s View : Permission to loot

Today’s View : Permission to loot

The swift netizen defense of alleged Yolanda looters establishes that violence is permissible in the name of survival. But, we have to ask, survival under what conditions? Survival according to whose standards? The answer to the first seems to be that violence is permissible under conditions over which people have no control, such as natural disasters.

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Read more about the article Noynoy, not God, was absent when Yolanda struck, says lawmaker
President Noynoy Aquino visiting a relief distribution center for Yolanda victims. (photo taken from P-Noy Facebook account)

Noynoy, not God, was absent when Yolanda struck, says lawmaker

“It’s not God who was absent or was somewhere else when Yolanda struck. It was the Aquino administration that was and still is nowhere to be felt, found or seen by our hapless kababayans (fellow Filipinos),” said Davao-based lawmaker, Atty. Carlos Isagani Zarate of Bayan Muna Partylist.

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IN PLAIN SIGHT

This contributed photo from Tacloban City shows people carting off goods from Robinson's Mall last Monday in plain sight of an armed security guard who could only watch . Chaos and hunger has stricken this city struck by Typhoon Yolanda last Friday, as no clear system has been implemented to carry off the dead and take care of the many survivors. (Photo contributed by Arthur Yap)

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