Global activists who met here for the International Conference for Peoples' Rights in the Philippines (ICPRP) said President Rodrigo Duterte’s State of the Nation Address (Sona) should tackle peoples’ rights and peace talk, among other issues, in what they called concrete programs for the people.
A former partylist lawmaker who has attended protest rallies during the State of the Nation Address of the past Philippine presidents since 1998 said the rally on the first SONA of President Rodrigo Duterte will be different.
Davao City Mayor Sara Z. Duterte said she will be reporting for duty on Saturday, July 23 dispensing rumors of her alleged plan to resign as city mayor.
After a four-day tour to different communities in Mindanao, an estimated 200 human rights activists from different countries opened the 2nd General Assembly of the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines at the Brokenshire Convention Center on Thursday, July 21.
Activists who were acquitted of kidnapping charge are planning to file counter charges against the military who allegedly manufactured the complaints filed against them.