The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) on Thursday said it is "undeterred" by the anti-discrimination complaint filed by the Makabayan bloc against the agency.

He added that NTF-Elcac must be dismantled as it “is operating beyond its original mandate and is Red-tagging people from the community.” There wasn’t much response to his first proposal to revoke the ...

Arlene Brosas of the Makabayan bloc want to realign the funds of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac) due to its unfinished projects and slow use of funds.

MANILA, Philippines—This fiscal year, the funds for the socio-economic program of the controversial National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) are at their lowest ...

The NTF-Elcac itself had tapped the Cocopea to be one of its members, which was approved in November last year by President Marcos as task force chair. The task force said then that it was ...

MANILA, Philippines — A senator has hit the duplication of budget allocations and zeroed in on the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), which she estimates to ...

The UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change Ian Fry called for the disbandment of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed ...

The 2018 and 2019 audit reports and financial statements of the task force’s member-agencies do not mention anything specific to NTF-ELCAC or anti-communist programs. Yet, the task force budget ...

Only one weakened guerilla front is left of the New People’s Army (NPA), the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), according to the National Task Force to End Local Communist ...

BAGUIO CITY (PIA) — Authorities underlined the need to sustain the gains of the whole-of-nation approach in ending local communist armed conflict (ELCAC) and localized peace engagement (LPE) through ...