The country’s leading steel manufacturing company, Steel Asia Manufacturing Corporation, opened its biggest plant in the Mindanao Island here in Davao City, in its bid to capture the infrastructure and construction boom in the island.
Progressive groups led a hunger strike and noise barrage protest to mark the International Political Prisoners Day.
Contingents of a human rights caravan from Mindanao to Manila, Manilakbayan, is now preparing their legal documents to file a case against the Philippine National Police-Quezon City Police District (PNP-QCPD) officerPolice Superintendent Col. Pedro Sanchez and his subordinates, following a violent dispersal last November 29 that left fifteen injured including two media practitioners.
Southern Mindanao region posted the highest in terms of the number of rights abuses cases, the militant Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) said.
Nathaniel David, 30, appeared in a press conference, Monday to admit that he has the dreaded HIV-AIDS (Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome ) since 2010.