MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine government should drop its red-tagging activities and “vanity projects” and instead use funds on disaster response, the Asia-Pacific Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (APCHRP) said in a statement issued on Monday. But earlier, Sen. Ronald dela Rosa defended the NTF-ELCAC budget as necessary to stop the communist insurgency. Gabriela is a group often linked to the Communist Party of the Philippines and the New People’s Army (CPP-NPA). Parlade gave his advice to Soberano after the actress spoke in an online forum for women’s rights that Gabriela hosted. Badoy is the spokesperson of NTF-ELCAC, while LFS and CEGP are two youth groups tagged as front organizations of the CPP-NPA.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer November 16, 2020 22:07 UTC