Dr Diana Mendoza writes that “in the Philippines, political parties have never reached a 100% mark for relevance and utility during elections. Where votes are based on candidates and personalities rather than party principles or ideals and social issues, political parties fail in aggregating all interests and socializing voters to choose on the basis of …
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In view of the proverbial youth vote, Dr Pilar Berse argues that “(it) does not categorically mean, though, that there is a youth vote. They are a force to reckon with in terms of numbers, but the experiences and diverse concerns of the youth contribute to differing attitudes during elections, making it difficult, if not …
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A middle power diplomatic strategy for a maritime and archipelagic Philippine state will require a normative agenda, a strategic response to an evolving international relations, according to Dr Alma Maria O Salvador. A Leni Robredo Presidency is equipped to redirect foreign policy based on the diffusion of norms on national and regional climate action, marine …
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With the objective of fighting historical revisionism, authors Raphael Lorenzo Pangalanan with Gemmo Bautista Fernandez and Ross Tugade published “Marcosian Atrocities: Historical Revisionism and the Legal Constraints on Forgetting,” an incisive article that enjoins its readers to analyze the “legitimacy of memory laws within the Philippine Constitutional framework”. Read more about this in Marcosian …
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Commission on Human Rights lawyer and former Executive Assistant to the Chairperson of the Human Rights Victims’ Claims Board, Atty Ross Tugade points out that the “Human Rights Victims Reparation and Recognition Act, enabled the victims of the Martial Law regime to file claims and be awarded with reparations for the violations they experienced. Legislating …
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Commission on Human Rights lawyer and former Executive Assistant to the Chairperson of the Human Rights Victims’ Claims Board, Atty Ross Tugade argues that the proposed legislation that celebrates Marcos Day diverges from the “legal acknowledgement of the Marcos dictatorship” and as such propagates the revisionism of Philippine history.