“When lawyers, prosecutors, and workers in the justice sector are murdered with impunity and alarming regularity, no one feels safe; our people lose trust and faith in our government and its justice system, and the unscrupulous are emboldened to take the law in their criminal hands.”
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Lawyers question anti-terror bill provisions ‘undermining judiciary, due process’
“The [anti-terror] bill provides powers to the executive branch that properly belong to the judicial branch.”
Under Duterte, attacks against Filipino lawyers escalating
“If they can kill lawyers, then they can practically kill anybody.”
Existence of political prisoners, Aquino’s ‘continuing shame’ – lawyers

By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Forty years after martial law, it is anomalous and anachronistic to have political prisoners languishing in different jails all over the country.” – National Union of People’s Lawyers
Abuse vs. Women and Children High in Baguio
The number of abused women and children here remained high in the past three years, the local justice and social welfare offices disclosed last week. BY LYN V. RAMO Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat BAGUIO CITY (246 kms. north of Manila) – The number of abused women and children here remained high in the past…