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SC Trains ?Special Court? Judges Handling Cases of Extrajudicial Killings in Philippines

MANILA — The Supreme Court will train the first batch of Regional Trial Court (RTC) judges who will handle cases involving killings of political activists and media members during an extensive seminar-workshop at the Manila Pavilion Hotel along United Nations Avenue, Ermita, Manila on May 7 and 8.
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Philippines: Socio-economic Rights and Globalization

by Chief Justice Reynato S. Puno
Supreme Court

The motto of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) is Tanglaw ng Bayan, literally Light of the Nation. As you leave the portals of this university, your feet will bring you down to the lowly valleys of life or up to the mountaintops of life. As Viktor Frankl once wrote, ?Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone’s task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.? You are light but be warned that ?what is to give light must endure burning.?
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Caraga Soldiers Accused of Illegal Arrest, Detention

Niadtong Abril 27, 2007 sa buntag samtang si PAULINO ?Dodoy? TARAY, sakto ang pangidaron, minyo, usa ka mag-uuma ug lumulupyo sa Purok #4, Mabog, San Roque, Bislig City kuyog sa iyang pamilya nagpahulay sa ilang panimalay kalit nga gilibotan sa mga kasundaluhan sa 36th Infantry Battalion, Philippine Army pinanguluhan ni Lt. De Leon ang ilang balay. Dayon gipangti-onan sila ug pugos nga pagawason si Paulino, kung dili kini mogawas ug mukuyog kanila istrapingon ang ilang panimalay. Dili lalim ang gibati nga kahadlok sa pamilya ni Dodoy Taray ilabina na sa iyang mga gagmay nga anak. Gidala siya sa sentro sa Sitio Mabog ug didto siya gi-imbestigar, tungod sa pag-abot sa igsoon niini nga babaye gibuhian si Dodoy Taray.
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