
Mariejo Ramos
Southeast Asia Correspondent at Context
Southeast Asia Correspondent at Thomson Reuters Foundation
Southeast Asia correspondent @ContextNewsroom @TRF |ex- @inquirerdotnet |[email protected] [email protected] | For social justice
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1 week ago |
context.news | Mariejo Ramos
What’s the context? As aquaculture drives loss of Philippine mangroves, renowned ecologist says political will key to mangrove rehabilitation. MANILA - The Philippines has touted aquaculture for decades to secure food as wild fisheries stocks decline, but the vast coastline farms have themselves been a significant driver of mangrove loss and degradation.
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1 week ago |
scroll.in | Mariejo Ramos |Bukola Adebayo |Kim Harrisberg
At a tense meeting in Nigeria’s capital Abuja, health workers poured over drug registers and testing records to gauge whether US aid cuts would unravel years of painstaking work against tuberculosis in one of Africa’s hardest hit countries. For several days in May, they brainstormed ways to limit the fallout from a halt to US funding for the TB Local Network (TB LON), which delivers screening, diagnosis and treatment.
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2 weeks ago |
context.news | Mariejo Ramos
What’s the context? The Philippines lacks a national LGBTQ+ anti-discrimination law, but local laws and guidebooks offer some protection. MANILA - Despite being seen as one Asia's most LGBTQ+ friendly countries, the Philippines does not have a national law that could address the discrimination and legal challenges queer Filipinos face.
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2 weeks ago |
allafrica.com | Bukola Adebayo |Kim Harrisberg |Mariejo Ramos
What's the context? Health experts across the world scramble to save TB projects after U.S aid cuts and warn decades of progress could be rolled back.
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2 weeks ago |
gmanetwork.com | Mariejo Ramos
Impoverished fishing communities in the Philippines are caught in a David-and-Goliath fight with industrial fishing companies after the country's top court loosened restrictions on commercial operations in protected coastal waters. Already facing threats from extreme weather and urban development that have destroyed fish breeding grounds, fishers fear they may now have to compete with large vessels in municipal waters, the 15-km (9 mile) stretch of sea off the coastlines of cities.
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Often battered by typhoons and floods, protecting the coastline is a priority for the sugar-producing Philippines province of Negros Occidental. *** Philippines uses mangrove buffer zones to protect its coastlines https://t.co/Z41SYNftNB

A draft law in the Philippines could be the first step towards recognising same-sex partnerships, signalling a major shift in a country where Congress has rejected proposals against the discrimination of LGBTQ+ people for a quarter-century. https://t.co/vNnGdeCilU

Duterte's arrest had unleashed a disinformation overload - a torrent of bogus news and videos that digital analysts only expect to worsen in the run-up to Philippine elections in May. https://t.co/4cLUGSHaE4