We need the FOI Act not a mere Open Data project

Since President Benigno Cojuangco Aquino 3rd became our head of government and chief of state in 2010, 26 media workers have been killed in our country. This fact has made us the third most dangerous country for journalists after Iraq and Somalia. That assessment is that of the Human Rights Watch, the international HR watchdog based in New York City.

HRW chastises the Aquino administration for giving Human Rights mere lip service. In only six of the cases of journalist killings have suspects been arrested. Meanwhile, the kidnapping, torture and enforced disappearance of people disliked by the elite or the anti-communist military and police or political warlords have gone unabated.