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Read more about the article Proposed amendments to Human Security Act violates human rights – progressive groups
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Proposed amendments to Human Security Act violates human rights – progressive groups

The proposed amendments to the Human Security Act (HSA) of 2007 is tantamount to “undeclared but legislated” nationwide martial law, Kabataan party-list Rep. Sarah Elago warned on Monday as she denounced the Duterte administration’s “draconian and over-broad counterinsurgency legislation.”

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Read more about the article Groups call on people to resist rising tyranny
Members of the Youth Movement Against Tyranny - Metro Manila hold an indignation and candle lighting protest in front of the Supreme Court in Manila to denounce the High Court's decision in favor of the quo warranto petition to expel Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno on Friday, May 11. (Photo courtesy of Kathy Yamzon)

Groups call on people to resist rising tyranny

Progressive groups called on the public, on Monday, to defend human rights and resist the rising tyranny that is now engulfing the country under the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte.

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Read more about the article Group voices alarm as military turns lumad schools into barracks
Lumad students, teachers, and support groups led by Save Our Schools rally at the Department of Education’s central office in Pasig City. They ask Education Secretary Leonor Briones to condemn alleged military attacks on their schools spread across Mindanao. (Photo courtesy of Save Our Schools Network)

Group voices alarm as military turns lumad schools into barracks

A group has called on the government to recognize the law that prohibits the military and all its instrumentalities of utilizing schools as garrisons.

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Read more about the article Negotiations be done in neutral ground – NDFP
Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison said it is premature to talk about laying down of arms in the second round of the peace negotiations. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)

Negotiations be done in neutral ground – NDFP

The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) stood its ground that the peace negotiations with the government of the Philippines (GRP) be held in a neutral venue abroad and the validity of agreements since 1992 be upheld, NDFP Chief Political Consultant Prof. Jose Maria Sison asserted on Thursday.

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