Press release – 20 February 2013 Manila, Philippines – On February 22, Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Enrique Ona will meet researchers and academicians to listen to a set of policy recommendations based from health researches leaded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-University of the Philippines Manila. The event is the highlight of NIH’ [...]
FOI: Mag-Ingat sa Hindi Tunay
STATEMENT OF THE RIGHT TO KNOW, RIGHT NOW! COALITION 06 February 2013 TODAY, we close our people’s campaign for the passage of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Bill in the 15th Congress. We have, to the extent that our capacities and limited resources permitted, exhausted all avenues that we thought were open to us to get [...]
FOI in ICU: A Call for Rescue by P-Noy
28 January 2013 THE Freedom of Information (FOI) Bill is on the throes of death. With just six session days left before the House of Representatives adjourns for the May 2013 election campaign, one and only one miracle could save it from certain perdition — a certification on the urgency of its immediate enactment by [...]
More civil society organizations support FOI passage
Press release – Action for Economic Reforms – 22 January 2013 Civil society groups involved in the sin tax, reproductive health and extractive industry transparency have come out openly to support the passage of the freedom of information bill (FOI). Speaking for Action for Economic Reforms, a lead civil society group in the successful campaign [...]
Joint statement of academics for FOI
Joint statement of academics for FOI 18 January 2013 We, the undersigned faculty of various universities, in our individual capacity as scholars and citizens, urge our Representatives in Congress to pass the Freedom of Information bill. We consider the bill an important piece of legislation to uphold our fundamental right to publicly-held information. As scholars, [...]
Civil Society asks, “Who’s killing who?”
Press Release – Action for Economic Reforms – 17 December 2012 Civil society responded to recent anti-sin tax statements that claimed the measure would kill the industry and posed the question, “Who’s killing who?” Dr. Antonio Dans of the UP College of Medicine stated that the final version of the bill would decrease smoking prevalence [...]
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