Gabriela solon Luz Ilagan cited the evacuation of 12 lumad communities in November last year due to military operations intended to protect mining explorations around the Andap Valley complex, the second largest coal deposit in the country, where Chinese mining corporations have investments.
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The province of Compostela Valley (ComVal) is gearing to become the next jewelry capital of the Philippines as the provincial…
AN OPEN LETTER Sagip hits Talaingod officials for denying the evacuation of lumads An open letter on the evacuation, displacement…
We plan to take our case to the United Nations Human Rights Committee and eventually have the libel laws of the country declared a violation of the International Covenant on Civil-Political Rights (ICCPR), said Lex Adonis’s lawyer Harry Roque. Once the UN body makes such declaration, lawyers could ask the Philippine Supreme Court to rule outright that jail terms for libel violates the country’s treaty obligations.
Davao priest Fr. Paul Cunanan died of a heart failure at 3 p.m. of January 19, this year. He was 68. Fr. Cunanan was at the doctor for a check-up at the Mindanao Heart Center, where he was confined and scheduled for a heart operation, when he gave in after to a cardiac arrest.
Various line agencies are addressing major bottlenecks for the completion of infrastructure projects lined up under the Mindanao Super Region…
Salupongan believed that their opposition to the Integrated Forestry Management Agreement logging project must have prompted the military to intensify their operation in the area. The lumads have been fighting against the government-backed IFMA for a long time now because it threatens to intrude into their ancestral domain. Your browser may not support display of this image.
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines is alarmed over statements made by authorities that a journalist supposedly aided…
Members of the Philippine press are gearing up to fight back against unrelenting harassments being conducted by the Philippine National…
The indigenous people Bagobo-Tagabawa are opposing the ongoing construction of hydropower plant in Tudaya by the Aboitiz-owned Hydro Electric Development Corporation (HEDCOR).
