ILOILO CITY – Filipino lawyer Angelo Karlo Guillen has been awarded the 2022 Roger N. Baldwin Medal of Liberty by Human Rights First, an international non-profit organization based in the United States. The award is in honor of the principal founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)....
COTABATO CITY (PNA) – Authorities are determining if the human rights lawyer in Maguindanao was the intended target when his parked car was shot twice by still unidentified attackers over the weekend. Police Col. Querubin Manalang, city police director, identified Monday, August 8, the owner of...
The camp of former vice president Leni Robredo clarified on Wednesday, July 20, that the Commission on Audit (COA) has already lifted the Notice of Disallowance on its hiring of a private lawyer a day before she stepped down from office. Former vice president Leni Robredo (OVP photo) “We would...
The Commission on Audit (COA) flagged the Office of the Vice President (OVP) after the latter engaged the services of a private lawyer. Seals of COA, OVP In an audit report released on Friday, July 15, the COA said that the OVP hired a private lawyer without the “written conformity and...
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is calling on Filipinos to pray for a Filipino lawyer who is in a critical condition after being shot in a random shooting incident in Philadelphia recently. DFA (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin identified the shooting...
Lamenting how disinformation made public officials “less accountable,” outgoing Vice President Leni Robredo bared plans to fight disinformation and fake news after she steps down as the country’s second-highest official at noon on June 30. Vice President Leni Robredo (Photo from VPLR Media...
There’s another Diokno in the legal profession. Senatorial candidate and human rights lawyer Chel Diokno congratulated daughter Laya Elena for passing the 2020-2021 Bar Exam, the results of which were published on Tuesday, April 12. Human rights lawyer Chel Diokno and daughter Laya Elena (Photo...
A Bureau of Customs (BOC) lawyer was seriously injured when he was shot by two unidentified gunmen riding in tandem in Pasay City Monday night (April 4). Col. Cesar Paday-os, Pasay City police chief, identified the victim as Atty. Joseph Samuel Zapata, 30, a resident of Barangay San Isidro,...
Comelec/MB Lawyer George Erwin M. Garcia on Tuesday, March 8, took oath as Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioner before acting Comelec Chair. Socorro B. Inting at Palacio del Gobernador in Intramuros, Manila. Garcia was picked by Pres. Duterte to fill one of the three vacant seats of...
(In celebration of International Women's Day and Women’s Month, Manila Bulletin is publishing stories featuring women who have made outstanding contributions to the country or to their communities.) The formidable spirit of a woman leader, the compassionate heart of a mother, the mind of a...
Going back to development work and alternative lawyering are among the options of Vice President Leni Robredo should she fail to get elected to the country’s top post in the May polls. Vice President Leni Robredo (OVP photo) Speaking at ANC’s Rundown on Thursday, Jan. 20, the presidential...
President Duterte will "execute the laws accordingly" when it comes to the case of his beleaguered friend, Pastor Apollo Quiboloy. President Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang photo) Cabinet Secretary and Acting Presidential Spokesperson Karlo Nograles gave this assurance in a recent press conference....
