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Heading Over the Human Rights Cliff

Frank Jannuzi | Posted 02.10.2013 | World
Read More: Foreign Aid, Human Rights, Peace Talks, Amnesty International, Fiscal Cliff, US Foreign Policy, Mindanao, Philippines, Sequestration, State Department, Foreign Policy, Fiscal Cliff Negotiations, Congress Fiscal Cliff, Fiscal Cliff Human Rights, World News
Frank Jannuzi

Sadly, few have lamented the potential consequences of sequestration for the United States' ability and obligation to promote peace and human rights in the world.

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Journey To Lake Sebu In The Philippines

John Robshaw | Posted 10.11.2012 | HuffPost Home
Read More: Philippines Textiles, The Philippines, Mindanao, Textiles, Philippines, Philippines Travel, Abaca, Home Design, HuffPost Home News
John Robshaw

Having fallen in deep with a Philippine gang in NYC that would descend upon me armed with deadly leche flan and delicious pork dishes, I was invited to come over to their homeland to see the abaca that I have long admired from the island of Mindanao.

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International Year of Forests: Day 215

Coleen Jose | Posted 11.29.2011 | Green
Read More: Environment, Mindanao, Haribon Foundation, Philippines, International Year of Forests, United Nations, Green News
Coleen Jose

Although the International Year of Forests sparked political action and is engaging citizens worldwide, natural disasters and realities on the ground are fueling stronger public demand for resource management and regulation.

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Why The Philippines' Maguindanao Massacre Happened

Time | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Philippines Elections, Andal Ampatuan Jr., Mindanao, Philippines, Maguindanao, Philippines Massacre, World News

Even for a country long hardened to election violence, the massacre of at least 57 defenseless civilians on the main southern island of Mindanao, many...

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Twelve Reporters Slaughtered: The Worst Day In The History Of Journalism

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Philippines, Columbia University, Reporters Sans Frontieres, Sheila Coronel, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Media, Media News, Journalism, Mindanao, World News
Virginia M. Moncrieff

Twelve journalists in the southern Philippines have been slaughtered, in what will surely be remembered as the worst single day in the history of journalism.

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