Statement of CHR Spokesperson, Atty. Jacqueline de Guia, on the use of child soldiers by NPA in armed conflict
Last 2 December 2019, authorities identified the killed soldier of the New People’s Army (NPA) during an encounter with the 23rd Infantry Battalion (IB) is a 16-year-old teenage boy from Gingoog City. The NPA minor was Litboy Talja Binongcasan, a Grade Six pupil in Sitio Sioan Elementary School in Brgy. Malinao, Gingoog City. The Commission […]
Statement of the Commission on Human Rights on the allegations of food blockade in Lianga, Surigao del Sur
PRESS STATEMENT 22 December 2017 Statement of the Commission on Human Rights on the allegations of food blockade in Lianga, Surigao del Sur Armed conflict gravely disrupts the lives of families and communities who are often caught in the crossfire between combatants. They directly suffer the horrors of war, and all its attendant difficulties […]