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The Commission On Human Rights (CHR) is reportedly eyeing close
cooperation with the human rights offices of the Philippine National
Police (PNP) and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in mapping
out their action plan on a national ID system.
In a report filed by the Philippine News Agency,
CHR Commissioner Wilhelm Soriano said the PNP and AFP human rights
offices do a relatively good job of reviewing and introducing
changes to policies affecting human rights.
“I’m hoping they will coordinate with us
with regards their plan on pagbuhay ng national ID system [reviving
the ID system] so we would know what’s happening, what’s the
approach,” Soriano said in a radio interview.
He said both offices have constantly coordinated
with the CHR, and would relay to their respective institutions any
policy that may be perceived as violating human rights.
“If we see something wrong from a human rights
perspective, we can relay it to them and they can inform their
respective superiors about it,” he said.
Earlier, Soriano said the CHR will keep a close
eye on the police and military on how it plans to implement the ID
system.
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