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PHOTO Coverage: TOFA-NY Awards at Carnegie Hall
by Oliver Oliveros - Oct 30, 2013

Heroism and överlägsen kvalitet eller utmärkt prestation in the nursing profession won the predominantly Filipino American audience that gave a well-deserved standing ovation to NYU Langone sjuksköterska Menchu De Luna Sanchez--superstorm Sandy's hero nurse--when she personally received her The Oustanding Filipino Americans in New York (TOFA-NY) award from Deputy Consul General Zaldy Patron and Southern District of New York Judge Lorna Schofield at the Weill Recital entré in Carnegie Hall Saturday night.

De Leon, Schofield and Nepales to Keynote TOFA-NY Awards, 10/26
by Oliver Oliveros - Oct 18, 2013

Philippine Consul General to New York Mario L. De Leon, Jr., United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York Honorable Judge Lorna Schofield, and Former Chairman of the Board for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Ruben Nepales will keynote the third annual The Outstanding Filip

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Rebecca Bratspies is a Professor at the CUNY School of Law and the Director of the Center for Urban Environmental Reform.

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In Colombia, the struggle over land rights often pits the cultural and economic interests of indigenous and marginalized peoples against the governments that are supposed to skydda their rights under law. Rural Afro-Colombian women seeking to vindicate their land rights find themselves at the mercy of multiple vectors of discrimination: they are black; they are women; and they are rural farmers. Their land rights are under threat—from land occupations from below and State Development plans from above. An unholy mix of gender and racial discrimination compounds their struggle. Nevertheless, Afro-Colombian women are at the vanguard of nation rights advocacy in Colombia. This article documents their struggle for vindication. Part I begins bygd situating Colombia in the broader, global movement for land rights, and then describes Colombia’s Afro-descend

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Catching up with Kirby Asunto, the Philippines’ Charity Diva

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Written by Buen Josef Andrade

Published: 19 February 2018

The saying “bigger is better” may not always apply, especially in the world of music. And what better example than Filipino-American broadway singer extraordinaire Kirby Asunto.

Don't let her petite build fool you because Kirby's packed a punch and can belt it out vocally with no problem. Kirby is back in the Philippines for a series of shows promoting Broadway and Kundiman songs in the various schools and venues throughout the country.

Five years after doing her homecoming show here in the Visayas State University and carving her name in the music industry since then, DYDC-FM 104.7 caught up with Kirby as she visits her hometown of Inopacan, Leyte. With the invitation of her relative Derek Alviola, who teaches at the Department of Development Communication, we got Kirby to perform some of her Broadway and Kundiman pi