{"id":118812,"date":"2017-09-21T01:21:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T05:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=118812"},"modified":"2017-09-21T01:21:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T05:21:31","slug":"restoration-of-chr-budget-is-the-peoples-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/21\/restoration-of-chr-budget-is-the-peoples-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Restoration of CHR budget is \u2018the people\u2019s win\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LP said the restoration of the CHR budget on Wednesday was timely, noting that it was a celebration of victory a day before the 45th year of the declaration of martial law on Thursday.
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MANILA<\/strong>\u2014 Members of the Liberal Party (LP) on Thursday welcomed the decision of a House of Representatives (HOR) to restore the original budget of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), describing it as \u201cthe people\u2019s win.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe restoration of the CHR budget is the people\u2019s win. It is a win for human rights, for collective action, and for truth and reason,\u201d the LP said in a press statement.<\/p>\n

LP said the restoration of the CHR budget on Wednesday was timely, noting that it was a celebration of victory a day before the 45th year of the declaration of martial law on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The party added that there was a great number of Filipinos that expressed their outrage against what they described as a \u201cjarring decision\u201d of the House to grant the CHR a measly budget of PHP 1,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cThousands of citizens called, emailed, tweeted, messaged their representatives asking for an explanation of their vote,\u201d the LP said.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the party said many, including young people, emailed their senators asking for support against the budget cut.<\/p>\n

Senators also expressed their opposition and vowed to correct the unacceptable appropriation.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll these combined pressured the Lower House to restore the budget of the CHR,\u201d the LP said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is how democracy works. This is People Power, millennial version in the age of social media,\u201d the party added.<\/p>\n

The House earlier reduced the budget of the three agencies to just PHP1,000 each as lawmakers expressed their displeasure over the offices’ performance. Originally, the CHR has a proposed 2018 budget of PHP649.484 million.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the House also restored the budgets of the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) and the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) which were also earlier defunded with a PHP 1,000 budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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