Sue Vice Ganda

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo For the topic of today’s column I had to choose between the land mines (internationally banned in warfare) that the communist New People’s Army laid to kill policemen en route to a hospital in Cagayan or the disgusting, distasteful and hurtful antiwomen rape jokes that ABS-CBN’s TV host Vice Ganda cracked during his recent live show at a huge venue. I chose the latter which, I fear, many might...

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Becoming the world's most bullied

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo In 2000 I covered the Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal in Tokyo that investigated and tried atrocities against women in countries occupied by Japan during World War II. This was some 60 years after the war crimes were committed. The trial was initiated by civil society, human rights and women’s groups from Asia, Europe and the host country, Japan. The Philippine delegates, some 20...

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Unless the poor...

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo The late feisty lawyer Haydee Yorac, when approached by distraught persons complaining about their mayor (newly elected or reelected, I don’t remember), stared down the complainants and, with characteristic brusqueness, said: “Bakit, ibinoto ko ba ang mayor nyo (Why, did I vote for your mayor)?”                                                                                                                                                                        Inquirer...

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Gutsy moms who know but don't approve

Philippine Daily Inquirer/FEATURES/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo Quoting Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem “Dirge Without Music” was how Lydia de la Paz, mother of slain physician Dr. Remberto “Bobby” de la Paz, began her speech that became a classic during the dark days of martial rule. She was speaking these words to fellow mothers, who had lost their sons and daughters to the excesses of the Marcos dictatorship, at the 1985 founding of Mothers and Relatives...

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Sainthood for Archbishop Oscar Romero

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo While many Filipino Church leaders are now on the campaign trail to openly and blatantly discredit candidates whom they consider “antilife” and anti-Catholic because these candidates went against the official Church stand on the Reproductive Health Law and supported it, I don’t see a groundswell that would spell the ultimate doom of these pro-RH candidates in the May 13 polls. Meaning, candidates...

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