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SunStar + July 30, 2021 AMID the global celebration of World Day Against Trafficking 2021, International Justice Mission (IJM) launched a series of research projects and campaigns to strengthen and scale its global solutions to protect children from online sexual exploitation. "These celebrations, amidst the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, are testament to the unstoppable momentum in the global fight against the crime," said lawyer Samson Inocencio, regional vice president of ...

Lamentations of victims of Philippine war on the poor State of the Nation Address should have been an apology for what President Duterte has done with his bloody drug war Updated: July 27, 2021 10:43 AM GMT Trending “Oh my Aldrin, how nice it was to be your mother … The many dreams you had … Shattered all of a sudden. In an instant, you were gone. On the night of October 2, you were killed By motorcycle-riding offenders without license plates Their faces were covered … Ordered by the bu...

2022 Philippine Elections: Journalists vow to empower voters Protest mobilization against Oplan Tokhang (Philippine Drug War): one of the three key issues plaguing the 2022 elections. Source: Wikimedia Commons MEDIA by Perfecto Caparas PHILIPPINE journalists and various media organizations recently signed a pledge “to provide accurate, reliable and essential information that will empower voters and encourage public discussion and debate” in the lead-up to the nation’s May 2022 national e...

Published July 25, 2021, 1:50 PM Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) has assured its full cooperation in the investigation and prosecution of cases involving the continued killing of judges, prosecutors, and lawyers in the country. “The IBP grieves and is appalled by the increasing and sheer number of assassinations of lawyers, judges, and prosecutors with impunity,” the IBP said through its President Burt M. Estrada. It said that compared to ...

[PODCAST] Law of Duterte Land: ICC hopes alive in Supreme Court ‘loss’ Jul 23, 2021 12:50 PM PHT Rappler.com The Supreme Court voted 15-0 to dismiss the petitions challenging President Rodrigo Dutertes unilateral withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC). Its one of those types of decisions – the ruling is to dismiss the petitions, but the reasoning contains a lot for "positive" takeaways. Lawyers call the reasoning just obiter dictum, or an opinion that doesnt have legal wei...

Published July 13, 2021, 8:24 AM Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) has vowed to support fully the government’s drive to achieve herd immunity as it mobilized more lawyers to get themselves vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). “The IBP joins the government in marking July as Health Awareness Month in its efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and arrest the ill effects of the pandemic,” IBP President Burt M. Estrada sai...

By VIRGIL LOPEZ, GMA News Published July 7, 2021 1:25pm Supreme Court Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo has appealed to the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) to help in efforts to increase public confidence in the country’s judicial system. Speaking at the oath-taking of new IBP officers on Tuesday, Gesmundo said the SC “has been relentless” in looking for solutions to the problems afflicting the judicial system and had come up with rules aimed at protecting individual rights a...

By CONSUELO MARQUEZ, GMA News Published July 4, 2021 10:27am The outgoing Presidents possible reelection as Vice President may be questioned before the Supreme Court (SC) but there are limitations to do this,  Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) immediate past president Atty. Domingo Cayosa said Sunday. Cayosa previously mentioned that there is no explicit provision in the 1987 Constitution that bars President Rodrigo Duterte from running as Vice President. Section 4, Article 7 of t...

The Constitution does not prohibit President Duterte from running as vice president in the 2022 elections. But, Domingo Egon Q. Cayosa – immediate past president of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) – said Duterte’s candidacy for vice president next year can be challenged before the Supreme Court (SC). Cayosa pointed out that not anyone else can go to the SC. Only someone who will run for the same office next year would have the legal standing to file a petition, he stressed. Th...

Published July 2, 2021 1:14pm President Rodrigo Duterte can run for vice president in the May 2022 elections since such a scenario is not expressly prohibited by the 1987 Constitution, the head of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) said Friday. “The Constitution does not explicitly prohibit a president from running for another office after his term as president. What it prohibits is a reelection,” IBP president Domingo Cayosa said. “[There is] no express legal impediment.”...