Ten Years of the Visiting Forces Agreement: An Assessment
By the Policy Study, Publication, and Advocacy (PSPA) Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) May 29, 2009 The presence of heavily armed U.S. soldiers even in the remote areas…
By the Policy Study, Publication, and Advocacy (PSPA) Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) May 29, 2009 The presence of heavily armed U.S. soldiers even in the remote areas…
DAVAO CITY---The name Danilo Santiago first appeared in the media on June 14 last year, a day after a man by that name was killed in Tagum, Davao del Norte. When the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) conducted a public inquiry on the killing of Kumander Parago?s daughter Rebelyn Pitao in April this year, the name Danilo Santiago again cropped up. But who was Danilo Santiago? How was his death related to the death of Rebelyn Pitao? Commissioner Leila De Lima had asked Helvin Bitang, a Military Intelligence Bureau (MIB) personnel, if he knew the man. Read on.
By CHERYLL FIEL Davao Today DAVAO CITY ? A lumad leader was gunned down just a few meters from the town hall of Boston in Davao Oriental yesterday, bringing to…
Church advocates decried the military's blanket dismissal of the recommendations by the International Solidarity Mission (ISM) to stop the human rights abuses in the region. They also raised alarm that…
QUEZON CITY -- Assistant minority leader and Gabriela Women's Party representative Liza Maza expressed alarm that US troops entering the Philippines would again use the US-RP Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA)…