Election Commissioner Rowena Guanzon is pushing for voluntary quota of women candidates in political parties to ensure more women in government.
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Four political prisoners who have been serving time for more than one to two decades will soon be freed as the presidential pardon given by President Rodrigo Duterte takes effect.
President Rodrigo Duterte allayed fears that he will declare Martial Law, saying it is “kalokohan” (stupidity).
Human rights group Karapatan said amidst the declared unilateral ceasefire by both the government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, government troops are occupying health centers, barangay halls and even civilian houses in some parts of the country.
Government chief negotiator Silvestre Bello III vowed to release some 50-70 political prisoners before the international human rights day on December 10, as he extended his condolences to the family of Bernabe Ocasla, one of the 400 political prisoners who recently died of a heart attack.
President Rodrigo Duterte urged the public to be more active in community and national issues as his message for the 153rd birth anniversary of national hero, Andres Bonifacio.
President Rodrigo Duterte took the opportunity during the inauguration of the mega drug rehab facility in Nueva Ecija to lambast anew critics of his anti-drug war.
President Rodrigo Duterte is pushing through with his visit in Lanao del Sur province even after some members of his advance team were injured in an attack in Marawi City on Tuesday morning.
Seven members of the Presidential Security Group and two members of the 65th Infantry Battalion were hurt in an attack by still unidentified groups in Marawi City, Tuesday morning.
An elderly political prisoner died Monday afternoon after his third cardiac arrest since Friday, Nov. 25.
