Ms. Faisha Mae Tangog, a student of Dr. Rogelio Bayod at Cor Jesu College, will be a co-presentor with her mentor Dr. Bayod, in the 21st Asian Bioethics Conference this coming August 29 to September 1, 2021. They will present the paper "Defending Moral Obligation: Duterte's Dauntless War on Drugs." The ABC will be participated in by bioethicists, medical researchers, and public health experts from the US, Japan, Germany, India, New Zealand, and Malaysia, among others. This year's conference will deal with the Covid-19 pandemic.
Professor Thomas Pogge of Yale University will be the mentor of Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc in the ASAP Global Justice Program Fellowship at Yale University. Prof. Pogge is the author of World Poverty and Human Rights. Dr. Maboloc will write his research on structural issues in Muslim Mindanao using the perspectives of Iris Marion Young and Thomas Pogge. ASAP is an acronym for Academics Stand Against Poverty. According to its website, it utilizes "scholarship to influence policy and public attitudes to poverty. Established in 2010, (ASAP) is a non-partisan, independent global organization aiming to eradicate severe poverty worldwide." It is based in New Haven, Connecticut. It is under the Global Justice Program at Yale. Fourteen scholars around the world were chosen for the ASAP Program. Pogge is the most prominent scholar on global justice. He proposed the global difference principle as a critique to John Rawls's A Theory of Justice. Rawls was Pogge's adviser at H...