- Press Statements
There are fundamental differences between annulment of marriage under the Family Code and absolute divorce as proposed in the recently approved HB 9349.
- Press Statements
After having been given more than adequate and extended time to interpellate and expound on their opposition to the absolute divorce bill, the more vociferous detractors are sore losers as they continue to trample on the clear and well-accepted rule on the reckoning of the winning votes.
In a supermajority-dominated House of Representatives, independent opposition leader Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman has again prevailed with the approval on third and final reading of the absolute divorce bill which he has principally authored and sponsored.
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The creation of a Special Committee on Human Rights under Administrative Order No. 22 is welcome, however this initiative of President Marcos Jr. must be complemented by the immediate ratification of the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, and the presidential certification on the urgency of the enactment of the Human Rights Defenders Protection Act.
- In the News
Every year since 1992, the Bantayog ng mga Bayani Foundation has been honoring those it considers to be martyrs and heroes (300 plus to date) who fought for freedom during the dark years of the Marcos dictatorship (1972-1986). Those were the women and men who lost their lives, suffered in prison, were tortured in so many horrible ways and who disappeared (“salvaged” or summarily executed) because they dared to stand up against tyranny.
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