Opinion

Today’s View: Demystifying prostituted women portrayed as deviants

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Nov 25, 2012

By MAE FE ANCHETA-TEMPLA

In this first foray in Today’s View, I want to debunk the misconception that women in prostitution are deviants and, therefore, have to be regarded as outcasts. Women suffer from such a categorization as if personality disorders have to be corrected and that rehabilitation is of utmost concern for the humanitarians. Here lies the psychoanalytic framework as a further analysis for women in prostitution.

Today’s View: International Day of Impunity

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Nov 23, 2012

By AMIRA ALI LIDASAN

Journalists and human rights groups are marking November 23 as the International Day to End Impunity, in remembrance of the 2009 Ampatuan Massacre, which according to International Freedom of Expression Exchange is “the single deadliest incident for journalists in recent history.”

Pessimism

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Mar 27, 2010

By now practically everyone’s mind has been conditioned to think that an epic failure is looming for the May 10…

Violence and remembrance

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Mar 27, 2010

By Luis Teodoro The Nobel laureate William Faulkner observed some 50 years ago that their tragedy is that human beings…