The Hanns Seidel Foundation holds its 2023 Fourth Quarter General Membership Meeting and Year-End Get-Together in Makati City, bringing together 19 former scholars, on site and online.

The online dialogue was attended by 27 representatives from partner organizations (ALG, CHR, PNP, AFP, PAHRA, HSF), Congress and civil society organizations (CSOs).

The media landscape is at a turning point. Artificial intelligence has spread rapidly across the media landscape and is increasingly taking over the tasks of journalists. Declining readership and revenues as well as the increasing spread of fake news make it necessary to analyze AI applications in the media from an ethical and reliable point of view on how to use AI applications effectively and responsibly.

A 2-day CBD Summit covering Western Visayas was held last 20-21 November 2023 in Iloilo City. The activity was able to achieve its objectives, viz: (i) Participants increased appreciation of CBD as an approach to human rights promotion; (ii) Action plan on how to influence the functionalization of existing Human Rights (HR) mechanisms & local policies, and (iii) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed for local CBD sustainability with defined institutional roles.

This half-day CBD held on November 10, 2023 in Batangas City was organized by the Commission on Human Rights Region IV-A (CHR-Region IV-A) in with the support of the Hanns Seidel Foundation/Germany (HSF).