German City awards Mindanaoan nun for HR advocacy
A Filipina Benedictine nun from Mindanao is the recipient of the Award for Human Rights by the Weimar City in Germany this year.
Japanese firm workers slam “illegal dismissal” of 100 colleagues
Workers of a Japanese company which manufactures wall panels, roofing systems, and other building and housing materials for export is currently on demonstration after the management reportedly sacked more than 100 workers who refused to sign contracts putting them under labor agencies.
All systems go for Kadayawan security
The Davao City Police Office will implement the Operation Plan (Oplan) Sita to visitors during the Kadayawan Festival as part of its security measures.
Missing massacre survivor surfaces, recounts ordeal to city councilors
Aida Seisa, the farmer leader from Paquibato District here who owned the house raided by the military on June 14 midnight, surfaced and came to the City Council’s regular session to give her account of the incident.
US-BASED NURSES. Marietta Braganza (left), a nurse from California, listens to tribal leaders from Davao del Norte during the medical mission sponsored by Filipino-American health workers for the lumad evacuees in Haran Mission Center on Monday. The activity is part of the week-long International Solidarity Mission to Mindanao. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
US health workers hold medical mission for IPs in Haran
A group of Filipino-American missionaries from the United States initiated a medical mission for the indigenous peoples presently housed in the evacuation center in a church compound here since Sunday.