Xandra Liza C. Bisenio
Xands heads IBON's Media and Communications Department.
Are foreign investments in water what we need?
November 13, 2024
FEATURES
The government’s water supply and sanitation map declares the need for further private sector involvement and implies more foreign participation. But will this solve the country’s water predicament?
The pathetic Php64 food threshold
August 25, 2024
Government policymakers and economic managers are so privileged that they can only make mechanical estimates of a low food threshold that justifies their complacency in poverty eradication.
Lumad, Laban. Lumad, Laya.
June 9, 2024
Atake sa mamamalakaya at kalikasan
April 26, 2024
Choose
March 5, 2024
I guess the point is that through the years, people working for genuine change have been dissuaded by the powers that be. Yet the clamor for their rights is sustained, because they choose to persevere.
Camouflaging climate inaction
June 9, 2023
FEATURES
Hyping climate spending is hypocritical if environmental destruction continues.
Trouble in fishers’ waters
May 4, 2023
Whether or not the government’s rehabilitation efforts will be sufficient to return Laguna de Bay to its former state and capacity as a major source of food, water and livelihood will be tested.
Will the creation of a department solve our water woes?
April 17, 2023
FEATURES
SB102 distorts the concept of water resources belonging to the commons or cultural and natural resources that are accessible to all members of a society by allowing water to be handled by the profit- and business- oriented private sector.
