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NTF-ELCAC Spokesperson for Social Media Affairs and Sectoral Concerns Undersecretary Lorraine Marie Badoy (File photo) MANILA - The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF ELCAC) is hoping the Regional Trial Court (RTC) will soon proscribe the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) as terrorist. This, after the Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC) issued a resolution on January 26, finding probable cause to designate 16 underground mass organizations of the CPP-NPA-NDF as "terrorist groups of persons, organizations or associations" based on verified and validation information, as well as testimonial and documentary evidence. "We are one step away from getting the justice we have long raged for. Once the RTC proscribes the CPP NPA NDF as terrorist, their house that is built on deceit and lies by this terrorist organization will crumble -and we will be able to put behind bars those who've had the ....
Undersecretary Severo Catura, NTFELCAC spokesperson for International Affairs, Peace Process and Human Rights Concerns (Screengrab from NTF ELCAC virtual press conference) MANILA - There is no need for the enactment of House Bill 10576, also known as the Human Rights Defenders Protection Bill, as all the rights and freedoms cited in it are already included in the country's Constitution. "All the rights and freedoms cited by the bill as needing protection are appropriately covered by our Constitution already and under specific laws. So are we saying here that these rights do not exist and therefore must be stressed in another law. Because from how we looked at it, and from how millions of Filipinos looked at it, all these rights are in place and being enjoyed," Undersecretary Severo Catura, National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF ELCAC) spokesperson for International Affairs, Peace Process and Human Rights Concerns, said in a virtual press conference ....
"I, we, stand with all of you today — unburied by those who wanted to take life and our rights away from all of us. This recognition, the Franco-German Human Rights Prize and the Rule of Law, is not only for me: it is for each and every person who believes in defending and advancing people’s rights," Palabay said. ....
"One death is simply too much, and these 52 deaths show a grim image of irregularities," Colmenares said. "But more importantly, the 52 cases, and there are definitely more, only show that the drug war is not the success the Duterte administration paints it to be." ....