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Armamento new human rights chief

The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on Wednesday appointed a new chairperson Leah Tanodra-Armamento to succeed the former chair Chito Gascon. The new chairperson is...

CHR chair dies of COVID-19

Commission on Human Rights chairman Jose Luis Martin Gascon has passed away following his bout with COVID-19, his family announced Saturday. He was 57. “Of...

Lawyers unite for civil liberties

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Gascon takes swipe at Uson, Olivar

Commission on Human Rights chairperson Chito Gascon on Wednesday took a swipe at Communications Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson and blogger Drew Olivar for mocking...

Palparan, two other soldiers get life term

Retired Army major general Jovito Palparan shouted at a Malolos judge Monday, calling him a coward after he was found guilty of kidnapping and...

CHR holds hearing to probe carbon effect on climate

THE Commission on Human Rights on Tuesday conducted its first hearing to investigate the possible contribution of carbon to climate change and its impact...

What if

Like the mouse that roared, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte dared both Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno and Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales and himself...

Congress split on CHR issue

THE Senate and the House of Representatives headed for a collision Thursday, with senators vowing to restore the budget of the Commission on Human...

Palace: Dissenting opinions welcome

DISSIDENTS are still much welcome in government, Malacanang said Thursday as it underscored the administration’s respect for the opinions of the different heads of...

CHR budget slash stirs public uproar

“HE had it coming.” This was what President Rodrigo Duterte had to say about Commission on Human Rights chairman Chito Gascon, whose agency was given...

Congress and the purse strings

Before the appropriations committee took up the matter of the Commission on Human Rights budget, Chito Gascon already feared the worst.  From his Facebook...

The wisdom of the ‘masa’

I listened to an interview by Karen Davila over her ANC morning program “Headstart” last Aug. 21, where she juxtaposed a live interview of...

‘Bombing of lumad schools breaks law’

ANY threat to bomb lumad schools is against international humanitarian law, as President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to do if the schools harbored terrorists,...
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