The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) has rejected proposals to resume the peace negotiations between the national government and the communist rebels.
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Published February 25, 2021 12:44am The Senate Committee on National Defense and Security, Peace, Unification and Reconciliation on Wednesday said there is no need for a new law to penalize red-tagging as there were enough provisions under other judicial remedies for such cases. “[T]here is no need to pass a law that penalizes red-tagging because recourse is already provided under the Revised Penal Code, Civil Code, special laws, and other judicial remedies,” the committee report read. The committee said some of the existing remedies were already availed by progressive groups. “Legal remedies, as exhaustively discussed in this Committee Report, are sufficient and available for personalities or groups that have been the subject of the so-called red-tagging and which some of them have already availed as evidenced by the cases filed in the Ombudsman,” the panel said.
Published February 23, 2021, 5:15 PM
TACLOBAN CITY – Borongan City Mayor Jose Ivan Dayan Agda says infrastructures could end the decades-long reign of terror from the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) in Eastern Samar.
Agda said that one of the factors that continuously divide the people in far communities is the inaccessibility of basic government services.
He cited Barangay Pinanag-an, the remotest barangay in Borongan which is about a three-hour motorboat ride from the wharf in Borongan with more than 1,000 households.
In 2019, a bloody encounter transpired between government troops and the NPA in the barangay. Several soldiers were killed and wounded.
Commission on Human Rights (MANILA BULLETIN)
CHR Spokesperson Jacqueline de Guia on Monday night, February 22, said:
“We are concerned with this another death of an infant as this raises questions about the government’s fulfilment of the United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-Custodial Measures for Women Offenders or the ‘Bangkok Rules.’”
Last year, various groups criticized the government on the treatment of detained activist Reina Mae Nasino whose newborn baby daughter River died after being separated from her.
“Ultimately, decisions pertaining to the lives of our vulnerable children should keep their best interests in mind,” De Guia, a lawyer, said.