RELEASE FRENCHIE MAE CUMPIO

We demand the immediate release of community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio who has been arrested along with four human rights defenders on Feb. 7, 2020 in Tacloban City. The circumstances surrounding her arrest are enraging. A fact-finding mission found out that the...

1M Signatures for ABS-CBN’s Franchise Renewal

We call on Congress to do what is right and immediately pass the bill to renew ABS-CBN’s franchise. The quo warranto petition filed by the Office of the Solicitor General before the Supreme Court for the revocation of the network’s franchise is proof that...
Convict Ampatuan, Justice Now!

Convict Ampatuan, Justice Now!

On November 23, 2009, 58 people, 32 of them journalists, were brutally murdered in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao. But almost 10 years after, not a single conviction has been handed to the mastermind of the massacre, members of the powerful Ampatuan clan, who plotted and...
MANIFESTO: Sign against the Sign!

MANIFESTO: Sign against the Sign!

We, media organizations and news outfits, call on law enforcement units to immediately end the continued practice of requiring journalists to sign as witnesses to the inventory of contraband and other items seized during anti-drug operations. And to ensure that this...