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(Eagle News) — The House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to grant the Commission on Human Rights a budget of only P1,000 for next year, after 119 lawmakers approved a party list lawmakers’ proposal on the budget cut. Only 32 lawmakers voted against the proposal by 1-SAGIP party-list Rep. Rodante Marcoleta to give the CHR a P1,000 budget after accusing the commission of doing selective investigation of human rights violations. “You are supposed to investigate […]
CHR to issue request “one more time” (Eagle News) — The Department of the Interior and Local Government said on Friday that President Rodrigo Duterte has thumbed down the Commission on Human Rights request to view police case folders on supposed extrajudicial killings. “Yes. It’s something like that,” DILG officer-In-charge Catalino Cuy said in a chance interview when asked if Duterte would heed the CHR’s request. He said he already informed CHR Chairman Chito Gascon […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of National Defense on Thursday reminded government forces that the rule of law and human rights should still prevail in Mindanao. In a memorandum to the chief of staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and to other DND offices and bureaus, Eduardo del Rosario, DND officer in charge, noted that the declaration of martial law in Mindanao does not mean a suspension of the “operation of the Constitution” nor “(a supplanting of) the […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – Malacañang criticized the Commission on Human Rights for being selective in investigating alleged human rights violations in the country. According to Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo, it is very obvious that when it is the opponent of the government that is killed, the CHR immediately investigates the case. He said that when the victims are soldiers or policemen who died in the line of duty, the CHR does not immediately take […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Commission on Human Rights has expressed its concerns about the pronouncement of President Rodrigo Duterte to pardon the policemen involved in the death of former Albuera, Leyte Mayor Roland Espinosa Sr. “Ngayon po, dapat sampahan ng kaso sa ating mga korte at dumaan sa proseso at antayin yung kapasyahan ng korte kung may sala man o wala,” Commission on Human Rights Chairman Chito Gasco, in an interview said. […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) – The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) admitted that it has no evidence to prove that the killings due to the anti-illegal drug campaign are state-sponsored. “We never said that it was state-sponsored at all,” an official of the CHR on Monday, March 27 said in a CHR-sponsored forum on campaign against narcotics. “There is no such finding that we can conclude that way. But what we can say is […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Handang tumulong ang Commission on Human Rights (CHR) sa imbestigasyon ng United Nations Special Rapporteur sa alegasyong extra-judicial killings sa ilalim ng Duterte Administration. Pero nilinaw ni CHR Chairman Chito Gascon na wala pa silang natatanggap na Official Communication mula sa UN hinggil sa imbitasyon ng Malacañang kay Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard. Ayon kay Gascon, maaaring pinaplantsa pa lamang ng un ang mga detalye ng isasagawang imbestigasyon.
QUEZON City, Philippines – The Commission on Human Rights described the suspension of the Senate probe on extra-judicial killings as premature. The CHR said that the probe should not be suspended as aside from Edgar Matobato, there are many other witnesses still waiting to give their testimonies. The CHR asked Senator Richard Gordon, chairman of the Senate Committee on Justice and Human Rights to reverse the suspension so that the truth regarding extra-judicial killings can […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – Chairman of the House Committee on Justice, Congressman Rey Umali said that he’d rather focus on the reform of the justice system in the Philippines instead of investigating the killing of alleged drug personalities as there are government agencies dedicated to such tasks like the Commission on Human Rights (CHR). But Umali also admitted that he is obliged to conduct such investigations if the House of Representatives passed such resolution. (Eagle […]
MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo R. Duterte vowed Thursday to adhere to the rule of law as he tackles the country’s major scourges such as crime, corruption, and proliferation of illegal drugs. In his inaugural address, he said these major problems must be addressed with urgency as he described them as “mere symptoms of a virulent social disease that creeps and cuts into the moral fiber of Philippine society.” He said that corruption, both in […]
A look of exasperation can be seen in CHR investigator Jun Nalangan’s face after a woman from inside 36 Tandang Sora refused to let him inside the INC property to investigate an alleged complaint from the occupants of the property. (Eagle News) — For the sixth time, representatives of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) were again denied entry by complainants, expelled Iglesia Ni Cristo members, who are illegally staying in the INC property. […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – Presumptive President Rodrigo Duterte believes that poverty should not be an excuse for committing a crime. Duterte was known for his campaign promise to eliminate criminality within 3-6 months of assuming the presidency. He is also in favor of reinstating the death penalty, which garnered opposition from the Commission on Human Rights and the Roman Catholic Church. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded […]
