Activists here lighted candles in support of the campaign to save the life of an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) now facing death sentence by firing squad in Nusakumbangan island, Indonesia this Tuesday (April 28).
The support of an international funding organization for the maintenance and preventive drug of those infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in the Philippines will end in June, said a City Health official.
About 1,000 indigenous peoples from five different areas of Mindanao staged on Thursday a human chain outside the Armed Forces' Eastern Mindanao Command here to protest alleged abuses in tribal areas.
A church who has been active in helping in the release of government soldiers captured by communist guerrillas said it is harassed by the military for giving sanctuary to children of the Higaonon tribe.
Another multinational banana company in the region succumbed to workers’ protest revoking its implementation of the piece rate scheme which was criticized for cutting workers’ wage by more than half.