February 12, 2021 The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) will continue to investigate cases of youth recruitment within armed conflict areas, an apt way to commemorate International Day against the Use of Child Soldiers on Friday.CHR spokesperson Jacqueline Ann de Guia said the agency strongly condemns… Read More Groups […]
By ROGER M. BALANZA Human rights lawyer Cel Diokno said citizens who exercise their basic rights on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter could be labelled as terrorists under the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020. Diokno, one of the lawyers of the petitioners against the anti-terrorism law, […]
Duterte inks law amending AMLA January 30, 2021 MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte has signed a law that intends to strengthen the country’s anti-money laundering act (AMLA).Republic Act (RA) 11521, inked by Duterte on January 20, introduces amendments to RA 9160 or the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2001 […]
By ROGER M. BALANZA University of the Phippines (UP) president Danilo Concepcion said the state university does not condone violence, terrorism or coercion as a means of political action and slammed military accusation that UP is infiltrated by communists. The accusation, according to Concepion, placed the lives of […]
Protest actions won’t be hampered: Lorenzana January 20, 2021, 1:54 pm Even with the scrapping of the Department of National Defense-University of the Philippines (DND-UP) Agreement of 1989, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said on Wednesday students and activist groups against the government can hold their rallies inside without […]
NTF ELCAC has legal standing to sue Militant women’s party-list group Gabriela and two affiliate organizations failed to get the Commission on Elections (Comelec) nod to its motion for reconsideration claiming that the government’s anti-communist body has no legal authority to sue them.In its seven-page… Read More
