House votes to give P1,000 budget to CHRSeptember 12, 2017
By ERWIN COLCOL, GMA News
The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved only a P1,000 budget for the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) for 2018.
With a vote of 119 in the affirmative, 32 in the negative, the House approved 1-SAGIP party-list Representative Rodante Marcoleta's motion to reduce the agency's budget from P678 million to P1,000.
During his interpellation, Marcoleta argued that the CHR should have been investigating all human rights violations, regardless of which group an individual belongs to.
"You are supposed to investigate all human rights violations irrespective of any group, any location whether they are soldiers, policemen, NPA, members of the Maute group," Marcoleta said.
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