Security personnel of a ranch allegedly fired upon three members of an indigenous group which is asserting land claim in Butong, Quezon, Bukidnon on Tuesday morning.
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Members of the LBC Davao Employees Union held a protest action during their lunch break on Tuesday.
The total cost of the workers’ union demand of salary increase and benefit is only five percent of the two year’s worth of net profit of the air cargo delivery service provider Luzon Brokerage Corporation’s (LBC), a labor group said on Friday.
The municipal government of Asuncion in Davao del Norte is experiencing power blackout for “more than 48 hours already” after the Davao del Norte Electric Cooperative Inc., which is managed by the National Electrification Administration (NEA) cut the power supply to the LGU, a local official said.
The Army announced it would pull out from the communities in Barangay Balit, municipality of San Luis, Agusan Del Sur following a dialogue with residents and local officials on Wednesday morning.
There has been an improvement in the peace and order situation in Tagum City according to the report of city mayor Allan Rellon during his State of the City Address on Wednesday.
The armed forces conduct of Community Organizing for Peace and Development drove the indigenous peoples away from their community, said a humanitarian mission report.
Tagum City mayor Allan Rellon is facing graft charges filed by bus companies before the Ombudsman.
A lumad leader from Davao presented cases of human rights violations (HRVs) committed by the armed forces during the 2015 preparatory meeting on United Nations mechanisms and procedures relating to Indigenous Peoples (IPs).
The New People’s Army in Bukidnon launched five military actions in a span of three days, offensives which they say, are meant to support the Moro people.
