Merceditas Gutierrez’ foremost qualification for her appointment as Ombudsman is her closeness (classmate) to Mike Arroyo. Women have nothing to be happy about Gutierrez’ appointment, because it just shows that Gloria and Mike Arroyo want to pack high positions in government with people who are loyal to them, so they can continue calling the […]

Aurora Javate de Dios, an expert on the Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women or the CEDAW, writes a chapter in our forthcoming book, Engendering the Philippine Judiciary. De Dios focuses on CEDAW and judicial practice, and points out the gaps in our judiciary.
We will post her article here […]