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Category Archives: Human Rights
Endemic Human Rights violation in the Philippines: A bloodbath craze act of the Duterte Administration? Or a propaganda of the Communist-Liberal opposition? By: Adrian Avilado Antazo, MBA
“Human rights must work to uplift human dignity, but human rights cannot be used as a shield or an excuse to destroy the country — your country and my country.”1 -President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, SONA 2016 The Current Human Rights Situation as depicted by the Mainstream Media: The Extra Judicial Killings of Drug Suspects AccordingContinue reading “Endemic Human Rights violation in the Philippines: A bloodbath craze act of the Duterte Administration? Or a propaganda of the Communist-Liberal opposition? By: Adrian Avilado Antazo, MBA”
The Senior Citizens and the Train Law: Additional Burden or Source of their benefits?
The 1987 Philippine Constitution obliges the Filipino Families the take care of its elderly members and commanded the state to create social legislation protecting and promoting the rights of our elderly.1 It also declared that it is the policy of the State to promote social justice in all phases of National Development.2 It further directedContinue reading “The Senior Citizens and the Train Law: Additional Burden or Source of their benefits?”
Ancestral Rights versus Modern development in the Province of Aurora: The Case of Casiguran Dumagats’ ancestral claims against the Angara’s Flagship Progress by Adrian Avilado Antazo, MBA
Social Justice according to Jose P. Laurel in Calalang vs. Williams 70 Phil. 726 in 1940, is “neither communism, or despotism, nor atomism nor anarchy, but the humanization of laws and the equalization of social and economic forces by the State so that justice in its rational and objectively secular conception may at least beContinue reading “Ancestral Rights versus Modern development in the Province of Aurora: The Case of Casiguran Dumagats’ ancestral claims against the Angara’s Flagship Progress by Adrian Avilado Antazo, MBA”
Human Rights
Case Digest Paper Death Penalty: Bringing back the Social Order in the Philippines Ancestral Rights versus Modern development in the Province of Aurora: The Case of Casiguran Dumagats’ ancestral claims against the Angara’s Flagship Progress The Senior Citizens and the Train Law: Additional Burden or Source of their benefits? Endemic Human Rights violation in theContinue reading “Human Rights”
Death Penalty: Bringing back the Social Order in the Philippines By Adrian Avilado Antazo, MBA
Death Penalty: Bringing back the Social Order in the Philippines By Adrian Avilado Antazo, MBA “…there are some defendants who have earned the ultimate punishment our society has to offer by committing murder with aggravating circumstances present. I believe life is sacred. It cheapens the life of an innocent murder victim to say that societyContinue reading “Death Penalty: Bringing back the Social Order in the Philippines By Adrian Avilado Antazo, MBA”
BAOC vs. CADAPAN G.R. Nos. 184461-62, May 31, 2011
Facts: June 26, 2006, armed men abducted Sherlyn Cadapan (Sherlyn), Karen Empeño (Karen) and Manuel Merino (Merino) (abductees) from a house in San Miguel, Hagonoy, Bulacan. The three were herded onto a jeep bearing license plate RTF 597 that sped towards an undisclosed location.Spouses Asher and Erlinda Cadapan and Concepcion Empeño filed a petition forContinue reading “BAOC vs. CADAPAN G.R. Nos. 184461-62, May 31, 2011”
CIDG vs. CAYANAN G.R. No. 181796, November 7, 2017
Facts: On August 16, 2007, Regina filed a petition for habeas corpus in the RTC alleging that Pablo, her husband, was being illegally detained by the Director/Head of the CIDG; that a group of armed men identifying themselves as operatives of the CIDG, led by Pascua, had forcibly arrested Pablo and had then detained himContinue reading “CIDG vs. CAYANAN G.R. No. 181796, November 7, 2017”