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Maria Ressa \"If you don't exercise your rights, you will lose them.\" In photo: Maria Ressa, Nobel laureate and CEO of Rappler, as photographed by Moises Saman / Magnum.

cont ents 1 profile Featuring the Nobel laureate and Rappler CEO, Maria Angelita Ressa 2 on the fight for facts Vogue sits down in an interview with Maria Ressa and her fight and Rappler's for press freedom 3 what say you? College students tackle various issues in society with regards to respect on human dignity 4 add to cart-oon Showcasing ideas in creative forms, featuring Blessie Lyne Gonzales's illustration 5 faqs? ganern! Frequently asked questions for the subject, National Service Training Progam

ON THE FIGH By Taylo M aria Ressa hasn’t -dent Rodrigo Duterte, earning the delivered a eaten all day—but consequences of his ire in the Ferdinand “Bong she hardly seems t- process. Ressa has twice been son of the Philip arrested and is facing a cyber-libel Ferdinand Marc o need to, tiny as she is, smiling, full of conviction and tax-related charges media–heavy talk, driven by some internal flywheel that could lead to decades of suffused with of restless, merry-warrior energy that imprisonment. She must ask reimagining his f never lets up. permission to leave the country (“I a “golden age.” don’t pack until I get approval. I’m a campaigned on None of what she’s telling me is good maniac after I get approval”). She says. “Make the news, of course. When we meet in and her staff have been targeted by Again.’ ” New York City in May —she is here on brutal trolling and violent threats on a visit from the Philippines, where she Facebook, which is ubiquitous in the Ressa and her st leads the digital - news organization Philippines, and all the more toxic for she helped found Rappler —she’s ruminating about it. Her Nobel speech in Oslo was blunt: fervently hoped tipping points, the worst of human “Technology, with its godlike power, outcome. After nature, the end of democracy. “I don’t has allowed a virus of lies to infect Duterte, whose want to depress you,” she says each of us, pitting us against each fueled a violen cheerfully, nibbling on a granite slab other, bringing out our fears, anger, country, the c of a Starbucks crispy rice treat and and hate.” President Leni Ro calling it delicious. brighter future. R But her rhetoric soared, too—and she covered the ele Ressa couldn’t depress you if she ended that speech with her hands the disinformatio tried. The 58-year-old journalist is a clasped together in a communal peddled by the beloved figure on the world stage, hymn to hope: “Please, with me, close but its journalis unsparing about the road we’re on— your eyes and imagine the world as it with the virality and the effects of social media in should be,” she said. “A world of who had friendl particular—but curious, charismatic, peace, trust, and empathy, bringing and flooded and kind to seemingly everyone she out the best that we can be. We have unabashedly meets. When Ressa won the 2021 to make it happen.” We’re not there “Marcos wanted Nobel Peace Prize (along with the yet—nowhere near, Ressa says, as we father was a Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov), sit together over a coffee at the distribution,” Res she became a global personification downtown hotel where she’s staying with anger and of bravery and the battle for truth —and she has every reason to be tears in the new over disinformation. She and her pessimistic. It is just days after her came in, Ressa reporters at Rappler have critically country's presidential election which Talabong, 25, wh covered the former Philippines presi- Reference: https://www.vogue.com/article/maria-ressa-rappler-philippines-interview.

T FOR FACTS or Antrim landslide win to right out of college (inspired by a yar was an early investor). As bong” Marcos Jr., the speech Ressa gave to his of this writing, international ppines’ late dictator classmates), told me, “There was no voices of support have lined cos. Marcos’s social time to grieve. The death of up to fight, including Hillary democracy? No—we had to keep Clinton, who tweeted in June: campaign was doing what we’re doing. This is what “Rappler, and Maria Ressa, tell populist nostalgia, Maria wants us to do: Continue the truth. Shutting the site father’s brutal rule as reporting, whoever the president is.” down would be a grave “You know what he disservice to the country and his first day?” Ressa “It was a humbling experience,” its people.” When I spoke to e Philippines ‘Great acknowledges news reporter Pia Talabong, he was in the Ranada, 32. “It was a wake-up call for newsroom, wondering if the taff at Rappler, which me as a journalist. Do people really doors would be padlocked by d a decade ago, had listen to us? Do people care about the authorities while he d for a different the news we write, or the analysis, or worked inside. “That core of r six years under the fact-checking? If they believe so Maria—to stay here and much in this candidate, and he continue doing our jobs and strongman tactics ended up winning despite everything continue hoping—we feel it nt drug war in his that we’ve been reporting, there’s every day,” he told me. “She candidacy of Vice something we have to parse about holds up the sky for us.” obredo suggested a the electorate.” The feeling, she says, Rappler had tirelessly is one of “hunkering down for work, ection, fact-checking because there’s a long road ahead.” on and mythmaking e Marcos campaign, Her job may prove difficult. A Marcos sm had to compete presidency, Ressa tells me, “will be of amateur vloggers bad for Rappler.” And indeed, in July, ly access to Marcos Ressa’s cyber-libel conviction was upheld (her legal team planned to YouTube with appeal to the country’s supreme laudatory posts. court). The Philippines’ Securities and d us to believe his Exchange Commission had already hero. And lies get affirmed its order to shut Rappler ssa says. “Lies laced down for allegedly violating the d hate.” There were country’s law against foreign control wsroom as the results of media (eBay founder Pierre Omid- a says. But Rambo ho worked at Rappler

BLESSIE LYNE GONZALES SOFIA CHANEL LUCAS ARIELLE LINGAD Your opinion about enforcing death Your opinion on numerous victims of Your opinion on unaccounted child penalty in the Philippines again? sexual harassment? For many years, despite the fact that Requests for sexual favors, \"sexual abuse cases over the country? the death penalty was a lawful harassment,\" and other verbal or penalty in our country for a physical acts of a sexual character are There have been numerous cases of substantial chunk of our history, due examples of harassment that may be to our innate values as Filipinos, it has considered an abuse of human dignity. child abuse by Catholic priests, nuns, been greatly disputed by the citizens However, harassment is not always of a and by the church as this degrades sexual character. Both the victim and popes and other religious figures. The and does not respect human dignity. the harasser may be of either sex, and they may even be of the same gender. case includes numerous allegations, The church has outlined a variety of Simple teasing, casual remarks, and grounds for its opposition to the isolated, minor episodes are not criminal, investigations, trials, convictions, implementation of such a law in the but when they occur frequently or country, the most fundamental of severely enough to foster an confessions, apologies, and attempts by which is linked to the respect for objectionable work atmosphere or harm human dignity. Even the Episcopal hiring decisions. church officials to expose and cover up Commission on Prison Pastoral Care of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Sexual harassment is divided into decades of abuse. Media attention the Philippines (CBCP-ECPPC) has different categories. The first is work- stated that \"the death penalty related or in the workplace. This occurs focused on sexual abuse by Catholic violates the inherent dignity of a when someone expects, asks for, or person, which is not lost despite the needs sexual favors from another person priests and monks. commission of a crime.\" In other in return for something else, including words, the inherent dignity of a being hired for employment, rehired, or Child abuse means doing or not doing person does not change regardless continuous employment, and many of whether or not a person commits a more. Next is, in a training or educational something that harms a child or puts a crime. setting. When a person demands, begs, or wants sexual favors from a student in child at risk of harm. Child abuse In addition, there is the standpoint exchange for \"providing a passing grade, that this kind of action is irreversible, or the awarding of awards and includes physical, emotional, which means that there is no scholarships, or the provision of a salary, opportunity to rectify any mistakes. A allowance, or other considerations,\" this psychological, and sexual abuse and death penalty is only a form of justice is called sexual harassment. that permits those with tremendous neglect. In addition to the physical harm power, wealth, and connections to Anxiety, melancholy, migraines, sleep wash their hands of their own filth difficulties, weight loss or gain, nausea, that can result from child abuse, abused and escape the repercussions of their low self-esteem, and sexual dysfunction vicious deeds, leaving those who are can all result from sexual harassment. children can suffer severe emotional unfortunate to pay for the consequences of their actions that Overall, sexual harassment creates a damage that can develop into serious cannot be undone. These climate that is stressful and occurrences destroy human dignity counterproductive for learning and social problems such as school fights, on a deeper level as there is a lack of working. Some victims are too scared to regard for people's security, safety, report the abuse that they've drug use, juvenile delinquency. and the right to sustain a good life. experienced, but who will fight and speak up for them? Factors that increase the risk of child neglect and abuse include young or single parents, parents who have experienced child abuse, parents who have neglected themselves, and parents who are experiencing personal or family stress. It is important to recognize the signs your child is being abused. It is also helpful to understand the causes and consequences of abuse, including abusive adults, abusive children, families where abuse occurs, and the impact on schools and churches. We need to strengthen communities and raise awareness among the population and communities to create a safer environment for children Importantly we need to come together on this and put things right so that all families and communities are better protected against bad people in our generation.

DANILO ROQUE JR. AIJAN REIGNE GALINDO ROME PHILIP MANUSIG What are the three most justifiable Your opinion on the recent issue of Your opinion on the voluntary use of grounds for divorce based on the decriminalizing libel? divorce bill document? In recent weeks, Sen. Tulfo made face mask outdoors? First, physical violence or grossly tensions rise in a hearing as he proposed abusive conduct directed against the relinquishing libel as a crime in an The Philippines was one of the last petitioner, a common child, or a child attempt to fulfill his earlier promise of the petitioner (a, 1). No person during the 2022 electoral campaigns. Southeast Asian countries to restrict the should be suffering from any form of Many groups and individuals, including violence due to the dangerous myself, found ourselves in a mixture of usage of face masks in public places. On behavior of one. Second, marital emotions: confusion, awfulness, and infidelity or perversion or having a most likely for some, anger. It is known September 12, 2022, Malacanang issued child with another person other than that libel and cyber libel are often used one’s spouse during the marriage. to silence journalists fighting for the Executive Order No. 3, S. 2022, which Infidelity might not be a great reason truth. One true example of this is Maria for divorce; however, cheating can Ressa from Rappler, who was, in 2019, legalized the voluntary wearing of face simply be labeled as adultery, it is arrested for the charges of cyber libel. misconduct. As per the fact that it Decriminalizing libel could help the masks outside. Masks are, could possibly affect one’s prevention on the spread of psychological being, the marriage misinformation and disinformation understandably, the last line of defense maybe not be the same anymore; online, the proponent says. However, the dynamic has completely NTF-ELCAC spokesperson for Legal against COVID-19 and other airborne changed, and it might just result to Affairs Prosecutor 2 Flosemer Chris be a dysfunctional family. Third, the Gonzales expressed his opposition to illnesses. The Department of Health Homosexuality of the respondent (a, said bill in a statement, \"Anything excess 6). will result to chaos.\" (DoH) is concerned about lowering mask What is my position regarding the Libel prevents excess freedom of laws, and for good reason: even with Divorce Bill? expression and freedom of press. It may I stand on the affirmative side; the be advantageous to individuals, much immunizations, people are significantly Divorce bill must be codified into law. less to say, journalists; however, the Aside from the above-mentioned decriminalization of libel could be used more likely to get COVID if they do not justification, I believe that people against common folk. The very idea of should have a second chance to harming innocent people is disturbing in use masks, especially in enclosed enjoy marriage life. What I meant by itself. And to be frank with you, I stand that is to be able to be married to with the various press groups who were settings with other people. The another person again. Divorce has a against the passage of the bill. lot of justifiable grounds, but I’m not Decriminalizing libel will not help Department of Health has frequently going to discuss it further, thus it is a defending press freedom in the country. case to case basis and prejudicial in In fact, it may only make things worse advised against lowering masking nature. Is there any loss if divorce will than it is now. Our laws should serve for become a law? I believe, there is none the best interests of the Filipino people, standards. They quoted in the media as since we are just providing people and not only for the betterment of with an option. Particularly, about certain groups. saying, \"Cases are likely to grow.\" We marriage life. Once it has been codified into law, will it be a subject must ensure that our medical facilities for manipulation? remain operational. Another concern is that if masking laws are gone, it may be difficult to reapply them the next time there is a spike. People will be unmasked beginning this month; will they be forced to put them back on at a later date? Mask mandates will be reestablished to what extent, if at all, and at what point or threshold? Unfortunately, the pandemic is still very much alive and well. They are presumably also aware that the government cannot ensure their safety and that they must do it on their own. You've been wearing a mask since March 2020; the cost of keeping it on in the meantime is negligible when weighed against the benefits of avoiding becoming sick.

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