The Gabriela Women’s Party (GWP) rebuffed the advice of President Rodrigo Duterte to women to stay away from priests amid allegations of sexual abuse against them.
From Sto. Tomas, Davao del Norte, Miriam Roda, along with her fellow union members, travelled to this city to join other women in a protest rally on Friday, March 8. She chose to be in the picket line that day, in solidarity with other toiling women commemorating the International Women’s Day.
In President Rodrigo Duterte’s hometown and in time with the celebration of International Women’s Day on Friday, women rights advocates unite for a call to end the ‘macho fascist government’ of Duterte.
A woman or a child gets raped every 72 minutes last year in the Philippines, a trend that progressive women groups have blamed on President Rodrigo Duterte’s “misogynistic statements”.
The National Bureau of Investigation-10 (NBI-10) said Friday it is set to file charges against individuals who they believed are behind the proliferation of illegally made and illegally sold cigarettes in Northern Mindanao.
The IGDD deals with around 10 to 15 VAW clients in a day, on top of new cases reported, according to Mandin.
The two spent the night inside the military camp.
Truckloads of cigarettes worth millions of pesos bearing fake Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) stamps were confiscated by authorities in a warehouse in Barangay Kauswagan on Thursday, March 7.
Poor Filipinos are not happy with the 3.8% inflation rate as the surge of prices of basic commodities in the past months have already put them into indebtedness and worsened poverty, a progressive lawmaker said.
National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) Chief Political Consultant Jose Maria Sison on Wednesday issued a statement, disputing reports he identified some legal organizations as a front of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).
