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Sunday, April 27, 2008 |
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Human Rights lawyer Honorata O. Victoria
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A mission for justice |
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While most lawyers get fat checks as payment for
their services, it is not unusual for Atty. Honorata O. Victoria to
receive a basket of fruits or vegetable for providing legal
assistance. “They are tokens of gratitude, really, and they
sometimes lined my office,” she narrates smiling. The 40-year-old
Victoria is a human rights lawyer specializing on women and labor
issues. Though she’s been in the field for nearly 15 years, she
discloses that her sympathy for the downtrodden and the marginalized
was something ingrained to her long before she had any plan of
becoming a lawyer.
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O T H E R F E A T U R E S
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THE FILIPINO CHAMPION
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Three young scientists
present research papers
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Three young Filipino scientists present their
scientific papers at the finals of the National Academy of Science
and Technology (NAST) Talent Search for Young Scientists 2008.
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UP students bag top prizes in
2008 BPI-DOST Science Awards
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Carla Gisela Ysabel Concepcion, a graduating
Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (MBB) student from UP Diliman (UPD),
bagged the top prize at this year’s Bank of the Philippine Islands
(BPI)-Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Science Awards.
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Children paint
for Mother Earth
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Sixty-nine children participated in a
children’s art competition entitled “Water is Life” at the
Arroceros Forest Park in Manila in celebration of Earth Day 2008.
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JCI launches search for
creative young entrepreneurs
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The Philippine chapter of the Junior Chamber International (JCI)
launches the search for the Philippine representatives to the JCI
2008 Creative Young Entrepreneurs Award (CYEA) in New Delhi, India.
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THE LITERARY LIFE
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Pleasures of the street
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ZISA showed up with a half-bottle of vodka just
as we were having our last drink for the night. She had that pensive
look which said she wanted to talk. Aldo, the sensitive poet,
obliged by asking whether anything was bothering her.
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THE GREEN REVOLUTION
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Cagwait celebrates Earth Day
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Earth Day is an internationally celebrated yet
still a relatively new concept in distant provinces in the
Philippines. Cagwait is a province in Surigao del Sur, and to reach
it requires a flight to Butuan and a painstaking eight-hour bus ride
through unpaved rough roads.
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