MANILA — The administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is “confident that it will succeed” in addressing the revenue-generation shortfall recorded…
By CHERYLL D. FIEL | davaotoday.com
Newly elected Davao City councilor Karlo Bello, who was recently selected as the chairman of the City Council’s Committee on Civil, Political and Human Rights, has expressed reservations about the Human Security Act, saying it might result in more human-rights abuses. “The same people who are already committing human-rights violations could be given authority to commit the same acts,” he said.
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Bayan Muna today urged Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, the presidential security adviser for regions 11 and 12, to lobby for a thorough review of the anti-terror Law or the Human Security Act, saying the mayors objectives in keeping peace and order” should be consistent with the protection of human rights and the upholding of democracy.
DAVAO CITY Nearly ten days before the implementation of RA 9372 also known as the Human Security Act (HSA)…
MANILA — The trade mission conducted by a Mindanao delegation to the Kingdon of Saudi Arabia has been constantly raking…
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will convene a Mindanao Peace and Security Summit next week to strengthen the government’s anti-terrorism measures and discuss the problems stakeholders would face in implementing them.
The group said the charge against Gilbert Cardino illustrates the fact that the Arroyo regime has rigorously, systematically and intentionally waging an all-out war against the Filipino people who are participating in legitimate struggles against political repression and human-rights violations.
The agriculture department is now undertaking various preventive measures, which are done in stages, to keep Davao and the rest of the Philippines bird-flu free.
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