Tag: centerlaw
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Categories Editor's Pick NewsCenterlaw says OSG,PNP gave them ‘rubbish’, files contempt charge
Philippine National Police and the Office of the Solicitor General had been opposing the release of documents related to the more than 20,000 drug related deaths. But last April, voting unanimously, the Supreme Court ordered the two agencies to submit the documents being demanded by families of the victims.
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Categories FACT CHECK NewsBill seeking to criminalize fake news ‘potentially unconstitutional’—advocates
They called on the Senate not to pass the bill.
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Categories CommentaryWhen protectors become tormentors
There’s a part in the narration by the surviving victims of Oplan Tokhang in Payatas in Quezon City last August 21 that sends chills down one’s spine.
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Categories Top StoriesCenterlaw: Documents belie De Lima’s claim of misinformation
Statement of the Prof. Harry L. Roque Jr., chair of the Center for International Law (Centerlaw), an NGO dedicated to the promotion of binding international legal norms in the Philippines and Asia: “We take exception to the veiled threat in the statement made yesterday by Secretary Leila De Lima that the Vera Files special […]
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Categories News
SC can compel DFA to renegotiate custody provisions in VFA, group insists
By JONATHAN DE SANTOS A non-government organization (NGO) has asked the Supreme Court (SC) to reconsider its decision to keep its hands off the issue of the controversial Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), and help make U.S. military personnel in the Philippines answerable for their misdeeds under Philippine laws. The NGO Center for International Law (Centerlaw) […]
