The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, in partnership with UP Center for Student Innovations, held a 24-hackathon last Oct. 17-18 at UP Diliman to promote good governance and fair elec...
PCIJ Executive Director Ma. Lourdes Mangahas was conferred with the prestigious Manuel L. Quezon Gawad Parangal on Monday, October 19, during the 76th founding...
Ahead of the National Children’s Month, New York-based group Human Rights Watch slammed the Philippine government for failing to protect children from artisanal...
In 2013, the National Agribusiness Corporation (NABCOR), one of five state companies that had served as conduits for fake NGOs in the pork barrel scam, was shut down. Twenty employees lost their jo...
Did corruption in the National Agribusiness Corporation (Nabcor) exist only under President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s watch? Did it linger on under President Benigno S. Aquino III’s administration?...
Blowing the lid off graft and corruption cases is not a walk in the park. What great odds do they have to contend with, before and after exposing muck? And how do their testimonies correlate with o...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed its third case against lawmakers linked to the pork barrel scam on Aug. 7, 2015 – nearly two years after the first two cases were submitted to the anti-graft c...
Janet Lim Napoles, the “pork barrel scam queen,” had deposited and withdrawn as much as P25 million on a single day from her fake NGOs. These bank transactions should have alerted bank officials an...
For years, the fake NGOs that Janet Lim Napoles had allegedly organized managed to escape the scrutiny of the Commission on Audit. Why? How? Atty. Levito Baligod says she got protection from her co...
Janet Lim Napoles, the “pork barrel scam queen”, is not the first or the last of her kind, according to Atty. Levito Baligod. He said there are seven to nine more “service providers” like Napoles w...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) should have filed its third pork barrel scam case against 29 – and not just nine – former and incumbent legislators, according to Atty. Levito Baligod. Who are the a...
Several government-owned corporations were linked to the pork barrel scam as conduits of the funds: ZNAC Rubber Estate Corp. (ZREC), Philippine Forest Corp. (PFC), and National Agribusiness Corp. (...
The former legal counsel of pork scam whistleblower Benhur Luy and the private complainant in the plunder/graft cases filed with the Sandiganbayan against lawmakers, Baligod has been accused of ask...
“Kung walang corrupt, walang mahirap (If there is no corruption, there will be no poverty).” President Aquino anchored his campaign for the presidency on this battle cry. Five years hence, what is ...
Three separate divisions of the Sandiganbayan are conducting trial of the separate plunder and malversation cases against three senators – Juan Ponce Enrile, Jose ‘Jinggoy’ Estrada, and Ramon ‘Bong...
It took the Justice department and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) two years to submit PDAF Case No. 3, which implicated lawmakers affiliated with President Aquino and the Liberal Party....
The May 2016 elections could trigger change or continuity of the political administration. What future awaits the trial and prosecution of the graft and plunder cases on the pork barrel scam?
Graft and plunder cases on the pork barrel scam were filed a year ago. How much longer will the trial last? How many more years must people wait for the verdict or promulgation of ruling? Deputy Om...
How many documents have been gathered for the PDAF cases? How many lawyers and witnesses are involved in the prosecution cases? Hear it directly from Deputy Ombudsman for Luzon Gerard Mosquera, the...
What has happened to the TRC employees who are respondents in the pork barrel scam cases? Have they found new employment and livelihood? Have they moved on?
Plunder and graft cases on the pork barrel scam were filed a year ago, but the hearing and trial are likely to stretch on for a few more years. A sense of loss, interrupted lives, and frustration h...
As early as 2010, the Technology Resource Center (TRC), one of five state-owned corporations linked to the pork barrel scam, had banned 44 NGOs from receiving public funds. Here's the reason why.
How did the graft unfold in the National Agribusiness Corporation (NABCOR) unbeknownst to the bosses? How did the bosses and the foot soldiers work out a system that breeds and feeds on graft? A wh...
How did the scammers skim money off pork barrel funds in the National Agribusiness Corporation (NABCOR)? And how did the culprits manage to get away with it? A whistleblower offers sordid details o...
Pro Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) advocates from Mindanao lambaste Senator Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr for his pronouncement of planning to draft yet another version of BBL.
ALMA Ravina is a second generation coconut farmer in Bondoc Peninsula, Quezon province. Since last year, she already owns the land their family have been toiling for years—well, at least that’s wha...
MILF chief peace negotiator Iqbal tells reporters why Senate could not compel him to appear before the inquiry on the Mamasapano incident and why using his nom de guerre should not affect the signe...
On March 17, 2015, the Right to Know, Right Now! Coalition and the University of the Philippines-Center for Integrative & Development Studies (UP-CIDS) held a forum on the independent evaluation of...
A lecture on "The South China Sea Dispute" by Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio T. Carpio on April 23, 2015 at the Salon de Baile, Bureau of the Treasury, Ayuntamiento Building, Cabild...
The United Nations General Assembly has declared May 3rd of every year as “World Press Freedom Day”. In fitting observance of the event, the PCIJ organized a public forum, “Let Journalism Thrive:...
House Committee on Public Information Chairman Jorge T. Almonte, along with FOI authors brief the media on the status of the bill in the Lower House. As well, the lawmakers called on the House Lead...
Friends of the Bangsamoro Movement representative Gani Abunda said that the solons should not pass the BBL "in the spirit and principles of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB)" whic...
Lawyer Mary Ann Arnado, secretary general of the Mindanao Peace Caucus explained that even though the proposed BBL provides for the creation of its own constitutional bodies (i.e. Civil Service, Co...
Workers from different industries in the National Capital Region marched from Liwasang Bonifacio to Mendiola, Manila to commemorate the International Worker's Day, May 1, 2015.
Atty. Jose Manuel Diokno, Dean, De la Salle University College of Law, and National Chairperson, Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG), The Legal Framework, proposes five reforms in the Philippine jud...
Atty. Jose Manuel Diokno, Dean, De la Salle University College of Law, and National Chairperson, Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG), The Legal Framework, proposes five reforms in the Philippine jud...
“For peace to be lasting and development sustainable, human rights must be respected. Everyone must be free to seek and impart knowledge and information through media online and offline,” Terence J...
WHILE statistics show a significant decline in the number of extra-judicial killings (EJK) in the Philippines, “there is still a tragic number of deaths” recorded the past recent years, United Stat...
Interview with lawyer Constantino Joson, director of the CALABARZON office of the National Bureau of Investigation, who is leading the probe into the death of former reporter Melinda "Mei" Magsino ...
Why the need for a Freedom of Information Law? This video short produced by the Institute for Freedom of Information, Action for Economic Reforms, and the Right to Know Right Know Coalition will te...
Representatives of civil society organizations from Mindanao held the press conference to call on legislators to lift the suspension of deliberations on the Bangsamoro Basic Law during the two-day ...
A COMPILATION of interviews with former Presidents Corazon C. Aquino and Fidel V. Ramos, former First Lady Imelda R. Marcos, and Senator Gregorio B. Honasan - all key players during the EDSA Uno P...