In the course of four days last week, we saw an alarming glimpse of how little regard those supposedly sworn to uphold the rule of law and to safeguard our rights and freedoms actually hold these in little regard, even contempt.On January 21, Glenn Jester HItgano,...
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[Statement] Let the wheels of justice turn for Doc Gerry Ortega
Today, January 24, 2020, marks nine years to the day when a member of a team of hired killers felled Dr. Gerardo Ortega in Puerto Princesa.Doc Gerry wore many hats: veterinarian, environmentalist, public servant, good governance advocate, civic leader, and...
[Statement] End the inaction! Ensure the safety of Cong Corrales and other threatened journalists!
28 August 2019 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines demands that authorities and security forces in Cagayan de Oro and Northern Mindanao ensure the safety of our former director Leonardo Vicente “Cong” Corrales, associate editor of the Mindanao Gold...
[Statement] 117 months since the massacre, we still await justice
23 August 2019 Today, it has been 117 months since 58 persons, 32 of them media workers, were waylaid and butchered on a hilltop in the town of Ampatuan, Maguindanao. All because the leading members of a powerful and wealthy political clan could not countenance any...
[Statement] HANDS OFF CAMPUS JOURNALISTS! On the harassment of The Pillar, University of Eastern Philippines
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines joins our colleagues in the College Editors Guild of the Philippines in condemning the intimidation by state security forces of The Pillar, official student publication of the University of Eastern Philippines in...
[Statement] Mr. Panelo, you are not entitled to twist the facts
The disingenuous Salvador Panelo resorts to deliberately twisted logic to justify Malacanang's ban on Rappler. “There are certain rules that you have also to observe as a guest of the Palace,” Panelo said after the Supreme Court ordered the government to comment on...
[Statement] ATTACKS WILL NOT SILENCE THE INDEPENDENT MEDIA
August 11, 2019 The National Union of Journalists decries the increasing incidence of what can only be described as targeted attacks on members of the critical media. Recently, our Bacolod chapter chairperson, Marchel Espina, was tailed by a suspicious motorcycle...
[PRESS STATEMENT] NUJP calls on journalists to organize into unions and defend press freedom amid continuing threats against media workers.
June 26, 2019 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines condemns the harassment committed by a lone gunman against five Bulacan-based journalists who were on their way home to Malolos, Bulacan, around 3:00 in the afternoon of June 21, 2019, Friday....
Take care of ALL workers’ safety— NUJP to media industry
25 June 2019 It is unfortunate - but not surprising - that it has to take the loss of an icon to highlight the continuing lack of concern for the safety and welfare of workers in the media industry, both in news and entertainment.Could the accident that felled Eddie...