Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Judy M. Taguiwalo (third from right) leads the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement in the implementation of Libreng Gamot Para Sa Masa Program during the DSWD 66th Anniversary Program in Davao City on Friday, March 3, 2017. (Photo from DSWD Region 11)
The 3rd of March 2017 marks the 22nd year of environmental plunder under the Mining Act of 1995. Under the act, large-scale, foreign, and destructive mining has spread like wildfire throughout the country.
President Rodrigo Duterte witnesses the emotional reunion of eight year-old Rexon Romoc and his family at the Malacañan Palace on February 28, 2017. Rexon Romoc was abducted by members of the Abu Sayyaf Group on August 5, 2016 and was released on February 27, 2017. Also in the photo are (from left to right) Sulu Vice-Governor Sakur Tan and Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Jesus Dureza. (King Rodriguez/Presidential Photo)
After a 6.7 magnitude earthquake and over 200 aftershocks in Surigao City, residents are back on their feet to march the streets on Monday, Feb. 27 as part of the Mindanao-wide peace rally held in several cities in Mindanao to call for the resumption of peace talks. The residents also called on the government to shutdown large-scale mining operations in Surigao del Norte. (Photo by Rhea De Castro)
Thirty-one (31) years after the dictator Ferdinand Marcos was ousted, and he and his family and fled the Philippines, Filipinos are continuing the fight against tyranny and forgetting.