Lumads end week-long stay in UP Diliman with cultural night
DILIMAN, Quezon City - A Friday night of cultural performances was prepared by the lumad delegates of the human rights caravan Manilakbayan 2015 from Mindanao to thank the University of…
NOTICE OF CLOSURE. Lumads from Mindanao call to close down the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples office in Quezon city for its "inaction" towards the Lumad issues in Mindanao. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)
Manilakbayan protesters want NCIP closed; NCIP says it is nothing new
Lumads who marched from Mindanao and have converged here picketed at the national office of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples to demand its closure for alleged failure to solve Lumad killings in Mindanao.
LET THERE BE LIGHT. Workers from the Davao Light Power Company repairs power lines along Obrero Street in Davao City. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
Davao Light implements 2-hour rotating power interruptions
The Davao Light and Power company has implemented two-hour rotating power interruptions after the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) imposed a Mindanao-wide deficit due to the emergency shutdown of two major power plants in Mindanao.
Lumads protest CHR’s snail-paced action on killings
Delegates of the human rights caravan, Manilakbayan from Mindanao marched from their camp inside the University of the Philippines Diliman to the national office of the Commission on Human Rights on Wednesday morning to condemn the agency's "slow response" on the investigation of the cases of Lumad killings in Mindanao.
Banana plantation workers protest Sumifru’s refusal to bargain
Banana workers from different Sumifru packing plants in Compostela Valley stage a rally to support their colleagues in the company’s cold storage facility who mounted a protest over the fruit giant’s refusal to enter into a new collective bargaining agreement.