BERLIN — Corruption is undermining judicial systems around the world, denying citizens access to justice and the basic human right to a fair and impartial trial, sometimes even to a trial at all, according to the Global Corruption Report 2007: Corruption in Judicial Systems issued today by Transparency International, the global coalition against corruption.
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Manifesto: Until and unless EO 608 is struck down by the courts or withdrawn by President Macapagal-Arroyo, it will bolster her ongoing efforts to arbitrarily withhold information from the Filipino people, in violation of our right to information on matters of public concern.
Commentary: Intensified militarization aims to disrupt the political stability and divide the people in Mindanao. In this way, the coming elections will be under the control of the military, which serves a desperate administration that has no other way to win the elections but through fraudulent means.
Davao Today managing editor Cheryll D. Fiel, who is in Compostela Valley covering the elections along with foreign observers, reports that soldiers in Pantukan town have put up camps in…
Below is the statement of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on election day:
Pahayag ng Pangulo sa Araw ng Halalan
Sa araw na ito ay nagkaisa ang sambayanang Pilipino sa likod ng demokrasya. Ipinagmamalaki natin ang ating kasaysayan bilang malayang bansa.
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