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"Hindi nila ako nilubayan ng katatanong kung ako'y kaanib sa subersibong organisasyon, at samantalang ako'y tinatanong ay dinanas ko ang halos lahat ng uri ng pagpapahirap. Kasama na rito ang paglubog sa akin sa drum na puno ng tubog na patuwad akong inilulubog, at kapag ako'y halos patay na ay saka lamang ako iaahon," reads the affidavit of a man who was imprisoned for nine months in 1978.

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We already know that climate change is a threat to the way we live. So how can we design the spaces we move around in so that future generations can still enjoy the same resources we do?

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As the Philippines marks its first-ever National Press Freedom Day, we ask: How free is the Philippine press exactly?

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On August 12, 2022, a decades-old religious order to kill renowned author Salman Rushdie was almost realized when he was repeatedly stabbed in front of a live audience in upstate New York. 

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At the first meeting of the Senate public information and mass media panel, Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles gives us a glimpse of what state media might look like in the coming years. 

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An expose by VICE alleged a “culture of sexual abuse that thrived for decades” at the Philippine High School for the Arts. But they are far from the first school to have been thrust into the spotlight over harassment. What can we do about it?

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"Labing-isang pilay lahat ang kanyang nakamtan na hanggang ngayon ay kanyang pinagdurusahan. Dahil dito hindi nila maayos-ayos ang kanilang pamumuhay," reads a Cotabato farmer's affidavit. He had been captured in in 1984, and though he was freed after five days, his wounds lasted for over a decade.

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"The twenty residents and celebrants of a wedding festival were simultaneously shot to death inside a mosque of Ganta, Datu Piang, Maguindanao," reads this affidavit of two celebrants who had survived a massacre of Muslim Filipinos in 1974. 

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"Nakaranas ako ng suntok, sampal, tadyak, hampas ng baril at sinturon at kahoy. Naranasan ko rin ang ilublob ang aking ulo sa maruming inidoro sa kasilyas, ang kumain ng katakut-takot na sili, ang lumuhod sa monggo, ang maging alipin nila, at iba't iba pang uri ng pagmamalabis na nakapagpapababa ng pagkatao ko," reads the affidavit of an activist who was detained for three months and put on community confinement for another six in 1972. 

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The 16-year-old girl was just washing her family's clothes near a deep well in their barangay in Maguindanao when military men snatched her away. Neighbors heard pleas for help, then gunshots. It was only when the perpetrators had left that they were able to rush to her "dead naked body... with some knife and several bullet wounds".

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