Ateneo de Manila University,commonly referred to as Ateneo de Manila or Ateneo,is a private,Catholic,teaching and research university,and a basic education institution located in Quezon City,Philippines. Established in 1859 by the Jesuits,it is among the oldest Jesuit-administered institutions of higher education in the Asia-Pacific.
Maria Angelita Ressa is a Filipino and American journalist. She is the co-founder and CEO of Rappler. She previously spent nearly two decades working as a lead investigative reporter in Southeast Asia for CNN. She is a Professor of Professional Practice in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and has been a Distinguished Fellow at Columbia's new Institute of Global Politics since fall of 2023.
Jose Wright Diokno,also known as "Ka Pepe",was a Filipino nationalist,lawyer,and statesman. Regarded as the "Father of Human Rights" in the country,he served as a Senator of the Philippines,Secretary of Justice,chairman of the Presidential Committee on Human Rights,and founder of the Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG),the premier group of Filipino human rights lawyers. Diokno is the only person to top both the Philippine Bar Examination and the board exam for Certified Public Accountants (CPA). His career was dedicated to the promotion of human rights,the defense of Philippine sovereignty,and the enactment of pro-Filipino economic legislation.
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) is an independent constitutional office created under the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines,with the primary function of investigating all forms of human rights violations involving civil and political rights in the Philippines.
Matanglawin,literally "Hawk's Eye" and usually contracted as Mata,is the official student publication of the Ateneo de Manila University in the Filipino language. The student paper dedicates itself to discussing socio-political issues in the Philippines,the plight and suffering of the working class,as well as pressing student rights issues. It is part of the Ateneo's Confederation of Publications (COP),including The GUIDON and Heights. The current Editor-in-Chief of the publication for S.Y. 2024-2025 is Lance B. Arevada.
The Mendiola massacre was an incident that took place on Mendiola Street,San Miguel,Manila,Philippines on January 22,1987,in which state security forces under President Corazon Aquino violently dispersed a farmers' march to Malacañang Palace in protest for the lack of government action on land reform.
The Tañada-Diokno School of Law is the law school and one of the eight schools of De La Salle University.
Jose Manuel Tadeo "Chel" Icasiano Diokno is a Filipino lawyer,educator,human rights advocate,and broadcaster. He serves as the chairman of the Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG),the founding dean of the De La Salle University College of Law,and the chairman of the Bantayog ng mga Bayani Foundation. He has served as a special counsel for the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee. He was a candidate for the Senate of the Philippines in both the 2019 Philippine Senate election and the 2022 Philippine Senate election. Diokno also co-hosts radio programs such as Oras at Bayan on Veritas 846 and Rekta:Agenda ng Masa on DZRH and DZRH News Television.
Arlene "Kaka" Javellana Bag-ao is a Filipino human rights lawyer and agrarian reform advocate who served as Governor of the Dinagat Islands from 2019 to 2022. Bag-ao additionally served as the representative for the lone district of the Dinagat Islands from 2013 until 2019. She has been dubbed as the 'Dragon Slayer' after consecutively defeating two of the most prominent members of the influential Ecleo political dynasty of the Dinagat Islands.
Rappler is a Filipino online news website based in Pasig,Metro Manila,the Philippines. It was founded by 2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa along with a group of fellow Filipino journalists as well as technopreneurs. It started as a Facebook page named MovePH in August 2011 and evolved into a website on January 1,2012.
The Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) is a nationwide organization of human rights lawyers in the Philippines. It was founded in 1974 by Sen. Jose W. Diokno,Lorenzo Tañada,J.B.L. Reyes,and Joker Arroyo during the martial law era under former President Ferdinand Marcos. It is the first and largest group of human rights lawyers established in the nation. They work on countering varied abuses against human rights and civil liberties. Its current chairman since 2003 is human rights attorney Chel Diokno,the founding dean of the De La Salle University Tañada-Diokno School of Law.
The Bantayog ng mga Bayani,sometimes simply referred to as the Bantayog,is a monument,museum,and historical research center in Quezon City,Philippines,which honors the martyrs and heroes of the struggle against the dictatorship of the 10th Filipino president Ferdinand Marcos.
At 7:15 p.m. on September 23,1972,President Ferdinand Marcos announced on television that he had placed the Philippines under martial law,stating he had done so in response to the "communist threat" posed by the newly founded Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP),and the sectarian "rebellion" of the Muslim Independence Movement (MIM). Opposition figures of the time accused Marcos of exaggerating these threats and using them as an excuse to consolidate power and extend his tenure beyond the two presidential terms allowed by the 1935 constitution. Marcos signed Proclamation No. 1081 on September 21,1972,marking the beginning of a fourteen-year period of one-man rule,which effectively lasted until Marcos was exiled from the country on February 25,1986. Proclamation No. 1081 was formally lifted on January 17,1981,although Marcos retained essentially all of his powers as dictator until he was ousted in February 1986.
Maria Serena Encarnacion Icasiano Diokno,also known as Maris,is a Filipino historian,academic,and former government official best known for having served as chair of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) and as a high-ranking official of the University of the Philippines (UP) system. She never graduated from UP with any honors and earned a PhD in African and Oriental studies at the University of London in 1983. Diokno succeeded fellow historian Ambeth Ocampo as chairperson of the NHCP on April 7,2011. She resigned from her position on November 29,2016,in response to the burial of former president Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani in Taguig,Metro Manila.
Marites Javier Dañguilan Vitug is a Filipina journalist and author who co-founded the news magazine Newsbreak. She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University from 1986 to 1987.
Romeo Jocson Intengan,S.J. was a Filipino doctor,social activist,and Jesuit priest. He was called "Archie" or "Nonoy".
Albert "Paring Bert" Eduave Alejo is a Filipino Jesuit,anthropologist,activist,and Tagalog poet. His areas of interest include:corruption and violence and the formation of social conscience;intercultural and interreligious dialogue;social research;and creative writing.
Historical distortion regarding Ferdinand Marcos is a political phenomenon in the Philippines. Ferdinand Marcos was the country's president between 1965 and 1986. Distortion,falsification,or whitewashing of the historical record regarding this period,sometimes referred to using the phrases "historical denialism","historical negationism",or "historical revisionism" as a euphemism for negationism,is an academically documented phenomenon linked to the return of Marcos' immediate family and political allies to government positions,as well as the hero's burial of Marcos himself in 2016. It continues Marcos' own efforts to create a cult of personality for himself,which in itself involved various forms of historical distortion.
The Polytechnic University of the Philippines Student Council (PUP SC) (Filipino:Konseho ng Mag-aaral ng Politeknikong Unibersidad ng Pilipinas) is the official undergraduate student union and collective student representative body of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines Manila campuses. It represents the interests of the students on the university,national,and global issues.
Guillrey Anthony "Ernald" Mallari Andal,is a Filipino Jesuit priest who currently serves as the fifth president of the Ateneo de Zamboanga University. He assumed office on March 15,2023 and succeeded Karel San Juan.
