Today, I pray with you, though you see me not, nor hear my voice. I scream with you when you wrap his body in a white sheet and lay him on the ground, accompanied by voices filled with rage and
DUNEDIN, New Zealand (MindaNews / 08 Sept) — Last month, President Rodrigo Duterte criticized the Ombudsman for “selective justice,” threatened an Iloilo mayor whom he accuses of shielding drug lords, and lashed out at government agencies hiring overpriced contractors. But
NEW ZEALAND (MindaNews / 17 Aug) — “I can no longer in good conscience support the government’s formal peace efforts that not only builds peace on a foundation of gross injustice and deception, but uses ‘peace and development’ as an
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 9 March) – On International Women’s Day 2017, I remember Jalila Maulani, whom I met five years ago when I first began volunteering in the Davao City Jail along Ma-a Road. Long before the current Tokhang anti-drug effort,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 08 December) — This week, I was in a dialogue group with people living in fear of police due to the War on Drugs, when a young artist from Tondo shared how police special forces entered
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 07 December) — We can end the war on drugs today because the war on drug is first and foremost a war in our minds. But before you write me off as hopelessly out of touch
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 Nov) – Last week, I re-posted the comment of a Muslim friend here in Mindanao, Philippines, with his critical perspective on the decision by the Supreme Court last week to allow the burial of Ferdinand Marcos (FM)
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/30 October) — The following is an expanded version of my presentation to the Mindanao Peaceweavers network meeting last October 15, 2016. We are currently living in a state of fear, when it comes to discussing issues of
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 13 Oct) – The police are not the problem, as much as some will paint the PNP black with the blood of over 3,000 killed in counter-drug operations. The jails and prisons are not the problem,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/29 Sept) — “Since wars begin in the minds of men (and women), it is in the minds of men (and women) that the defenses of peace must be constructed.” So states the constitution of the United Nations
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/13 August) — Friday, August 12 August 12, 2016, marked the 1,000th victim of extra judicial killing since the May 10 election, 598 at the hands of the police, according to ABS-CBN online. In almost exactly three months, it
[A previous version of this article first appeared as “Bayanihan Justice (Part 2): Bangon! Killing kids (and adults) in Davao didn’t stop crime” in Jeremy Simons Pagdaro sa Kalinaw blog at https://plowingpeacesowingjustice.blogspot.com] DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/28 July) — In president Duterte’s
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 12 March) – Red Herring – something intended to divert attention from the real problem or matter at hand; a misleading clue. Secession – the act of separating from a nation or state and becoming independent.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 5 Feb) – Timuay (chief) Alim Bandara stated, “we cannot keep silent anymore,” in his testimony about nine indigenous leaders who were killed from May 1 to the end of 2014, as well as the attempted
1st of 2 parts DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 4 Feb) – “The Promising Future of the Teduray and Lambangian is up in the air,” lamented Victoria “Vicky” Tauli-Corpuz, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNSRRIP),
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/16 Nov) — Transitional Justice experts have argued that local, especially informal, justice practices are insufficient by themselves to address the massive human rights violations and atrocities that characterize protracted violence. The risk in this line of thinking
Part 1 DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 14 July) — As defined in the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), Transitional Justice and Reconciliation (TJR) seeks ways to redress grievances, correct historical injustice, and address human rights violations against the Bangsamoro
DAVAO CITY – (MindaNews/01 July) — Dear “I hate this country,” I understand your feelings and frustrations, having lived in this place for nearly as long as you have been alive. When I came into the world on January 1,
Jeremy Simons (i-Emergence/Initiatives for International Dialogue) DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/02 February) – With all the fanfare and back-slapping surrounding the release of the annex on Normalization, did anyone notice the challenges facing implementation, especially in Tribal Communities? Judging by the amount
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 December)–With the release of “Power Sharing”, the 3rd annex of the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro, the situation of Indigenous Peoples (IP) in the Bangsamoro reached a critical point of clarification. Within Part 3, section 3 of the
Part 1 of a series DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 20 Nov) – What would you say if I asked you to describe concepts such as “Shariah justice,” “criminal justice,” “social justice,” “indigenous justice,” or any number of ideas of “justice”
