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[Media Release] Phnom Penh, Cambodia — Today, 62 grassroots, national, regional, and international civil society groups are calling upon ASEAN Member States to postpone the adoption of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration, which is not worthy of its name. The organizations vow to reject the Declaration if it is adopted with its current text. Instead, [...]

All across the globe, more and more governments are becoming Big Brother-ish over the Internet. China is probably the model that they aspire to, what with Beijing’s unprecedented and omnipotent censorship mechanism that is often called the Great Firewall of China. But you know what? At least in China — as a friend pointed out [...]

Why do we need a national bloggers’ association? One major rationale that I would like to discuss now is this: the preservation of the rights of bloggers as human beings and as citizen journalists. An association that is national in character and enjoys recognition by Filipino bloggers can have the mandate to uphold these rights. [...]