Women Who Changed The World, Part 2

The 2014 Women's Month Celebration is the best time to highlight the "drivers of change" who untiringly volunteered themselves in times of disaster, conflict and calamity. This celebration recognizes the role of women in the rehabilitation process and their over-all contributions to progress.

We started to feature those amazing women through out history in our last post. However, since there are just a very limited space to name a few of those women, we have to pause for awhile and reflect on the great deeds that they have done for us.

Baguio Child Killer Deserves The Most Painful

This is another senseless crime committed against children and whose motive is as flimsy as blaming onions for making you cry during a sad movie.

The gruesome scene occurred on last 6 April 2014 in Baguio City. The casualty: five persons, including three minors.

UN Statement on the RH Law Ruling

Leaders of various public and private institutions in the country expressed relief that the Reproductive Health law was upheld by the Supreme Court over a year since its passage. Majority are in agreement that the eight provisions struck down as unconstitutional would not hinder its objectives. They also praise the administration of President Benigno Aquino III for pushing what was tagged one of its most enduring legacies.

However, the thrill of the law's constitutional passage was not confined to majority of Filipinos only. The commitment of the government to attend fully to the needs for maternal care of millions of mothers was also recognized by the United Nations Philippines.

SC: RH Law Constitutional, But ...

Finally, the controversial, but essential, Reproductive Health (RH) Law has been upheld by the country’s highest court.

Expected to transform the lives of millions of poor Filipinos, the constitutionality ruling of the RH Law struck down dozens of petitions against it by church groups and ensured the stunning defeat for the powerful Catholic Church.

Massacre Victims in Oriental Mindoro Deserve Justice

There house may be far, isolated and hard to reach, but it does not mean that the family who were killed should not get justice.

Worse and chilling about this incident is that the suspects did not even spare the life of a 2-year old boy when they opened fire at a house of a farmer around 8:00 AM in Sitio Tubigan, Barangay Labonan, Bonganon, Oriental Mindoro.