Labor rights group dares DOLE: Implement properly Occupational Safety and Health law

A labor rights group dared on Wednesday the government’s labor department to implement properly the recently signed Occupational Safety and Health Law which they described as a “landmark victory for all Filipino workers.”

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Gabriela partylist solon cites documented rights abuses vs women, children in Mindanao

New cases of forced and fake surrenderees in Mindanao and death of a child due as a result of military operations were recently documented by an International Fact-Finding and Solidarity Mission (IFFSM) and the Commission on Human Rights.

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Read more about the article Lumad evacuees tell religious brothers of their lament
Members of Madaum Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Association Inc. (MARBAI) engaged in collective farming accommodates some 300 Lumad evacuees by providing them work in vegetable and banana farming inside their 7-hectare share in Davao del Norte. The evacuees were forced to abandon their abodes in Talaingod and Compostela Valley due to the persistent military operations. (Kath M. Cortez/davaotoday.com)

Lumad evacuees tell religious brothers of their lament

“We are not terrorists, we are indigenous people.”

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