Poll watchdog Kontra Daya warns of a ‘no election’ scenario in 2019 with the lifting of term limits included in the draft federal constitution, considering it the “worst form of election fraud.”
The Philippines once again landed on top among the 21 countries tagged as dangerous for farmers, farm workers, indigenous people, and other activists resisting land and resource-grabbing.
The state-run University of Southeastern Philippines (USeP) is set to open a Bachelor of Law program come 2019, a school official announced on Monday.
Around 700 community leaders and activists are now slapped with trumped-up charges, an "indicative of a sweeping crackdown on political dissenters," according to human rights group Barug Katungod Mindanao.
The National Commission of Indigenous People (NCIP) has no moral ascendancy in criticizing the Talaingod 18 while mum on the attacks against indigenous peoples in the province of Davao del Norte who were defending their ancestral lands, militant lumad groups in Mindanao said.