CHR Regional Speakers Guide questions: - As CHR what are your experiences (Best Practice and Challenges) in responding to WPS issues in your area? 1. Atty. Rommel Daguimol (Regional Director, CHR-CAR) a. Legal remedies against the AFP. ​[We covered] Benguet, Mt Province, Abra, Ilocos Sur, part of Ifugao, particularly Tinoc, and Nueva Vizcaya. Our experience as CHR-CAR we documented experiences involving women in peace and security, and saw saan ang possible na legal remedies to file against the AFP. b. Sagada encounter. ​May nangyari din sa may Sagada, there was an encounter in that area. As a best practice made by the commission, we conducted a CBD to include the municipal LGUs or the particular municipalities and also of Bontoc, the province of Mountain Province to come up with possible acceptable solutions to both the community and the AFP and PNP. Maganda ang nangyari, nag pullout ang AFP and inaccept naman ng community at saka may promise na hindi na mauulit. The question raised by the community was the use of facilities by the military, particularly sa pagpunta nila sa kanilang farm na may na napagkamalan na NPA. There were some allegations na women were harassed. Pero wala kasi kaming makuhang testimonies to substantiate those allegations. c. Exclusion of women in indigenous frameworks. ​Masaklap minsan na cultural community, indigenous frameworks have a bad efffect when dealing with WPS. Sa tribal system, mostly hindi kasama ang babae. So yung violations pertaining to the rights of women hindi nakikita. Karamihan sa members of the indigenous tribal council ay mga lalaki. Based sa interactions namin, hindi lang lalaki but dapat may anak or offsprings Hindi ka pwede maging [member ng council] if you are baak*. In ilocano. Meaning old man. Mangyayari there is still discrimination between sexes. d. Challenges in handling red-tagging cases. ​Yung red tagging cases, may mga documents kami regarding cases in Cordillera. Gabriela’s local organization submitted a complaint and some documents to the office. The only problem sometimes is the red tagging cycle in 2018; they submitted factsheets and complaints to the office but after some time di namin sila makuhanan ng statements. We located the individual to counter the factsheets but di rin namin malocate. So yung yung challenges ng Commission. e. Red-tagging of student organizations in Baguio City. ​With respect to the red-tagging, there are postings on social media where students were [warned] not to join some organizations. There was a council hearing made by the City Council of Baguio, and an expert panel there and the city also was invited. Medyo nag apologize yung BCPO at natake down yung post. So hindi natuloy yung kaso after that, hindi nag prosper yung kaso. f. EO 70. ​As per EO 70 we are sitting as a non voting member during that time [in coming up with] mechanism when dealing with AFP and PNP. Page 38​ of 62