The Standard - 2016 May 26 - Thursday

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VOL. XXX NO. 103 3 Sections 32 Pages P18 THURSDAY : MAY 26, 2016 www.thestandard.com.ph editorial@thestandard.com.ph

Aguirre: Speed up case of SAF44

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CHR FINDS RODY LIABLE FOR ‘JOKE’

Gascon: Duterte violated law on women’s rights By John Paolo Bencito and Rio N. Araja

DAVAO CITY—The Commission on Human Rights said Wednesday that President-in-waiting Rodrigo Duterte violated the Magna Carta of Women with his infamous remark that he should have been first to have sex with an attractive Australian missionary who was raped and killed in a prison riot in 1989.

“The CHR, in the dispositive part of the resolution found the words and actions of Mayor Duterte to be discriminatory of women that is enjoined by the Magna Carta of Women,” the CHR said in a statement. In an April 22 letter by Karen Gomez-Dumpit, commissioner for women and gender concerns, Duterte was informed that a complaint had been filed against him over the remark.

Duterte, however, ignored the request from the CHR to comment on the complaint. Since it doesn’t have policing powers, CHR said the Civil Service Commission and the Department of Interior and Local Government would have to consider appropriate measures based on its findings. “The CHR has the sacred constitutional duty to protect human rights and to call out persons when

these rights are violated no matter what their position in society may be,” CHR Chairman Chito Gascon said in a statement. “The commission believes that this mandate does not exculpate Mayor Duterte from acts committed or words uttered in the course of the electoral campaign when it involves breaches to fundamental rights, in this case, the prohibition of gender-based discrimination and Next page violence,” he added.

Canvass starts. Members of the Senate and the House of Representatives are joined by Comelec officials and lawyers for presidential and vice presidential candidates in inspecting the Certificates of Canvass on the first day of the official counting of votes for the top two positions at the Batasan session hall in Quezon City on Wednesday. MANNY PALMERO

NDF gives Digong list of names for Cabinet

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Ex-Comelec chairman raps poll agency By Joel E. Zurbano, Sara Susanne D. Fabunan and Maricel V. Cruz THE Commission on Elections and its automated election project partner Smartmatic Corp. should be held responsible for the system change in the transparency server on the night of the

May 9 polls, former Comelec chairman Christian Monsod said Wednesday. “It may be just cosmetic change. But it just shows that the system is vulnerable. We have known that for a long time that there is no system that is not vulnerable. The Comelec did not have tight control or safeguarding,” said Monsod in a forum at the Club Fili-

pino in San Juan. He also denounced how Smartmatic has been given so much power in the conduct of the elections, saying it should not have been the case. “The biggest lesson in automation is never let the supplier control the operation. Never give them control Next page


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