The pendulum of time swings, until it doesn’t. It pivots back and forth; Once energy is exhausted, it just stops. Human lives function the same way, The tick of our existence halts when our time is up.  What’s the worst part of it all? We do not know when, where, or how our existence ceases to be. We often overlook how quickly our lives, away from us, can flee. Taking things for granted is easy. “I hate it here,” someone mutters, because she could not buy a designer jacket. A person from...

“The most important part of transitional justice work is to help those affected by human rights violations articulate how they see...

History repeats itself. Exactly 51 years ago, corruption and tyranny plagued the Philippines as former president Ferdinand Marcos Sr....