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TRAUMATIZED. Christine, a 35-year old OFW from Cabadbaran, Agusan del Norte, recounts how her employer physically and verbally abused her everyday for more than one month of working as a domestic help in Saudi Arabia. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)

Scarred by employer abuse, a repatriated OFW recounts ordeal

Like most Filipinos finding no job opportunities here, she opted to leave her family of four and worked abroad. Her dreams were shattered when employers abused her as she recounted her ordeal in a press conference together with the militant Migrante and the Kilusang Mayo Uno Monday here.

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Read more about the article Army: Suspects in burning of IP school “disguised” as military
Teachers from Alliance of Concerned Teachers for Peace in Metro Manila held an alternative classroom at the Manilakbayan Kampuhan at Liwasan Bonifacio. They discuss the issues affecting lumad schools in Mindanao. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)

Army: Suspects in burning of IP school “disguised” as military

The Army’s Eastern Mindanao Command said it condemned the burning of an IP (indigenous people) school in Surigao del Sur, adding it was a handiwork of “still unidentified lawless armed group wearing Army uniforms.”

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Read more about the article Who burned the IP’s school in Agusan del Sur?
A grade 5 pupil of Alcadev school holds a placard during the visit of Senator Teofisto Guingona in the evacuation center in Tandag City sports complex in this capital of Surigao del Sur. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)

Who burned the IP’s school in Agusan del Sur?

At around 2:00 am on Thursday, the cottage used by the school staff and teachers of an alternative school catering to tribal students in Padiay village, Sibagat town in Agusan del Sur was burned.

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