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CHR chief hits back at Duterte over abolition plan

COMMISSION on Human Rights chairman Jose Luis Martin Gascon slammed President Rodrigo Duterte for his “utter disregard” of civil liberties, after he called for...

CHR told: Stop drug probe or be abolished

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte threatened to abolish the Commission on Human Rights should it continue to investigate his bloody war on drugs. In a news conference...

‘LGBTQ sensitive’ QC disaster work

QUEZON City is ready to answer the call of the Commission on Human Rights to push for a gender sensitive approach in disaster response. According...

CHR frets over ‘rape joke’

THE Commission on Human Rights on Sunday slammed President Rodrigo Duterte for his second rape joke and the human rights situation in Marawi City. “Rape...

CHR urges govt to address UN-backed Universal Periodic Review’s concerns

THE Commission on Human Rights on Friday urged  the Duterte administration to address the recommendations of the 95 United Nations member-states on the human...

A climate of impunity

SANTA Banana, I never thought that the police who are implementing President Duterte’s war against illegal drugs could go so low and commit barbaric...

‘Release druggies from secret detention’

CHAIRMAN Chito Gascon of the Commission on Human Rights on Sunday slammed Philippine National Police Chief Ronald dela Rosa for what he called his...

Embarrassing the government

THE chief of the Philippine National Police, Ronald dela Rosa, on Friday defended the detention of a dozen men and women inside a cramped...

Secret detention cell for druggies uncovered

A DOZEN men and women were found stuffed inside a secret closet-sized cell hidden behind a book shelf in a Tondo police station, triggering...

Surprise, surprise

It’s surreal, that story about a secret 1-meter-by-3-meter space behind a shelf at a Tondo, Manila police station, where at least 12 men and...

Ousted Manalo: I won’t leave compound

EXPELLED Iglesia ni Cristo member Felix Nathaniel “Ka Angel” Manalo maintained on Friday he would not leave the church compound. “Aside from the absence of...

Bishops laud drug war lull

THE Catholic Church on Tuesday welcomed the suspension of the government’s bloody war on illegal drugs, saying this would encourage addicts who feared for...

Arguments for restoring the death penalty

Opponents of the death penalty are at it again.  So-called human rights advocates and highly politicized leaders of the Roman Catholic Church in the...

Human rights and legitimacy

Causes need advocates, but the problem is that the line between the advocates and their advocacies is often blurred with the result that hang-ups...
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