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Published January 21, 2021, 3:02 PM Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Delfin Lorenzana has accepted Presidential spokesman Harry Roque’s offer to broker talks with University of the Philippines (UP) President Danilo Concepcion on the termination of a 30-year-old agreement between the two parties. Roque made the statement after he offered to facilitate a possible discussion between Lorenzana and Concepcion on the termination of the UP-DND accord that prohibits the uncoordinated en...

endIndex: The worry that the unilateral abrogation would imperil academic freedom and constitutional rights is not unfounded. Editor’s note: Michael T. Tiu, Jr. teaches Constitutional Law at the UP College of Law. As a lawyer at the Institute of Human Rights, University of the Philippines Law Center, he works on the intersection of issues and vulnerabilities brought about by climate change, business activities, and social change. The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s. Ma...

Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque on Thursday welcomed the proposal of some senators to institutionalize the accord between the University of the Philippines (UP) and Department of National Defense (DND) on the presence of state security forces on its campuses.

By ERWIN COLCOL, GMA News Published January 21, 2021 6:18pm Updated January 21, 2021 7:13pm Quezon City Representative Kit Belmonte on Thursday filed a measure which seeks to apply the provisions of the unilaterally-abrogated 1989 University of the Philippines - Department of National Defense (UP-DND) Accord to all state universities and colleges (SUCs) in the country. Belmonte, a UP alumnus, filed House Bill 8443, or the proposed "Academic Freedom Act of 2021," which institutionalizes ...

President Rodrigo Duterte (pic) supports the decision of the Department of National Defence to terminate its three-decade agreement with the University of the Philippines that bars the entry of the military or police in campuses without prior notice to the UP administration, Malacañang said

Malacañang says the enactment of a law that would amend the University of the Philippines (UP) Act of 2008 to require prior notification on the entry of police or military units to campuses, saying it was a "reasonable" proposal.

Advertisement The Philippine government announced Monday that it had terminated an agreement with the University of the Philippines (UP) that prohibits state security forces from entering its campuses, leading to protests by students and faculty and fears of academic repression. Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said he had ended the UP-DND accord, signed in 1989 between the university and then-defense chief Fidel Ramos, citing baseless claims that the Communist Party of the Philippines and Ne...

SunStar Editorial Cartoon by John Gilbert Manantan + January 22, 2021 DEPARTMENT of National Defense (DND) Secretary Delfin Lorenzana’s unilateral decision to drop the University of the Philippines-DND Accord via a notice to UP President Danilo Concepcion Jr. pointed out a number of reasons for the abrogation, but it exposed Lorenzana’s rather simplistic view of the pact’s reason for being, that it was at the outset simply a “gesture of courtesy accorded to UP upon the Univ...

AFP’s major services back DND abrogation of accord with UP By ANNA FELICIA BAJO, GMA News Published January 21, 2021 3:21pm Updated January 21, 2021 4:34pm The major services of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Thursday backed the decision of the Department of National Defense (DND) to abrogate its 31-year-old agreement with the University of the Philippines on the ban on entry of government security forces in its campuses. In a statement issued Thursday, the Philippine ...

The longstanding 1989 accord between UP and the Department of National Defense was suddenly terminated on January 15 via a letter to UP President Danilo Concepcion, citing claims that the university became a hotbed for the recruitment of communist rebels. The historic deal signed by then UP President  Jose Abueva and Defense chief  Fidel Ramos 30 years ago has prohibited state forces from entering UP campuses without the permission of the school administration. Exceptions warranting state ...