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MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Zarate said the recent flak received by the military for falsely accusing several University of the Philippines alumni as being members of the New People’s Army has triggered the need to determine how billions of pesos in intelligence and confidential funds are being spent by state security agencies. On the other hand, Quezon City Rep. Jesus “Bong” Suntay, said red tagging and directly linking individuals as memb...

Bayan Muna Rep. Ferdinand Gaite (Bayan Muna Rep. Ferdie Gaite Facebook / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) In a press statement, Bayan Muna Rep. Ferdinand Gaite aired hopes that Biden “would take a stronger position on the human rights situation in the Philippines.” Gaite wants the Biden administration to review its program of military support to the country. “Trump largely ignored this issue and sustained its military aid to the regime amidst issues of rights violations. We hope President Bi...

endIndex: Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 20) — A lawmaker is seeking an immediate House probe into what he described as a "one-sided" termination of the 1989 pact between the University of the Philippines and the Department of National Defense that once barred state security forces from entering the campus grounds without prior notice. Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman filed Tuesday House Resolution 1490 urging the House Committee on Human Rights to conduct an inquiry in aid of legislation on ...

Other members of the Makabayan bloc, most of whom are also UP graduates, argue that the DND cannot simply break the UP-DND Accord.

(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) In a virtual meeting, the House panel, chaired by 1-PACMAN partylist Rep. Enrico Pineda approved the “amended” draft committee report on House Bill No. 7909 or the proposed “Paid Pandemic Leave Law of 2020”. The measure is authored by partylist Reps. Arlene Brosas (Gabriela); Carlos Isagani Zarate, Eufemia Cullamat and Ferdinand Gaite (Bayan Muna);  France Castro (ACT Teachers) and Sarah Jane Elago (Kabataan). It was Baguio Lone District Rep. Mark Go who mo...

House OKs bill on better pay, security of tenure for media workers Jan 18, 2021 8:31 PM PHT The House of Representatives on Monday, January 18, approved a bill that would guarantee security of tenure and better benefits for all workers in the media industry. As the House resumed its session for 2021 on Monday, a total of 218 legislators voted in favor of House Bill (HB) No. 8140 or the proposed Media Workers Welfare Act on its 3rd and final reading. No other lawmaker voted against the bill or a...

AFP chief seeks cooperation with rights bodies over NPA abuses By JULIA MARI ORNEDO, GMA News Published January 17, 2021 8:39pm Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief General Gilbert Gapay directed military units to enhance their coordination with human rights bodies to flag abuses committed by the communist New Peoples Army. "Let us endeavor to raise all violations of human rights and international humanitarian law to legitimate organizations that are mandated to protect and promo...

Published January 16, 2021, 10:30 AM One of the petitioners questioning the constitutionality of the Anti-Terrorism Law has expressed dismay over the decision of the Supreme Court (SC) to postpone the oral arguments over the issue that was scheduled next week. The SC announced on Friday, Jan. 15, that the scheduled Jan. 19 oral arguments is postponed and reset for Feb. 2 after a staff and an Assistant Solicitor General of the Office Solicitor General (OSG) scheduled to participate in the hearin...

Published January 13, 2021, 3:59 PM Lawmakers rejected Wednesday the House Committee on Constitutional Amendments’ declaration that it is already sitting as a Constituent Assembly (Con-Ass) to introduce amendments to the 1987 Constitution. Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman and Bayan Muna party-list Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate strongly opposed the declaration made by AKO Bicol party-list Rep. Alfredo Garbin Jr. during the resumption of the House panel’s deliberations on Charter change that they are alr...

By DONA MAGSINO, GMA News Published January 13, 2021 6:03pm Updated January 13, 2021 8:26pm The Senate leadership on Wednesday said the House Committee on Constitutional Amendments was not yet sitting as a Constituent Assembly (Con-Ass) when they resumed the hearing on proposed amendments to the "restrictive" economic provisions in the 1987 Constitution earlier in the day. "Congress is on a break, the only way a Con-Ass can be initiated and considered to sit as one, is if its done in pl...