by Diego Magallona | Dec 9, 2019 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
The Philippines opened the 30th Southeast Asian Games this year with a performance celebrating the country’s indigenous cultures. A day earlier, indigenous Aeta communities were given a notice evicting them from their ancestral lands. These Aeta families – up to 500...
by Minch | May 18, 2018 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
Duterte’s authoritarian tendencies cannot be plainly framed as symptomatic of the changing times. His exercise of democracy, that is occasionally illiberal, is a product of the confluence of three sources of causal mechanisms – complex interactions among...
by stotomas.michelleanne@gmail.com | Apr 4, 2018 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
The never ending cry for justice of the indigenous tribes in Mindanao, Philippines prompted the current government through a summit held February 2018. Just days after the summit, President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the Lumads (indigenous tribes from Mindanao) that if...
by HARRIET DIAMANTE FERRER | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
The Philippines is one of the oldest democracies in Asia, but the country has been plagued with regimes that undermine the institutions of democracy, which result in its instability. The Philippines has experienced authoritarian leaders and presidents from the inner...
by Minch | Feb 28, 2018 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
The President recently aroused public reaction by equating the essence of a woman to a functional vagina. In front of more than 200 former communist rebels, the President said, “Tell the soldiers, ‘there is a new order coming from mayor. We won’t kill you. We will...
