The Philippine Supreme Court is right from the very outset in stating that the essential question before it in Province of North Cotabato v. GRP (October 15, 2008) is “the extent of the powers of the President in pursuing the peace process” (emphasis in the original). The Court also cited the correct case law (Pimentel [...]
Demystifying sovereignty in peace & AD talks
August 25, 2008 By 3 Comments
Blogger Dean Jorge Bocobo observes that “a lot of the verbiage on ancestral domain in the MOA-AD comes verbatim” from The Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA). The MoA-AD is the Memorandum of Agreement between the Government of the Philippines (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front on “ancestral domain” the constitutionality of which is currently [...]
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