Many young women, especially within urban poor communities, are becoming more vulnerable to the "prevalent" cases of prostitution. This time, this happens through social media networks, said a non-governmental organization helping prostituted women and children on Sunday.
The slowdown of the inflation rate in the country in February is but an artificial one, a progressive lawmaker said.
The outbreak of the novel coronavirus 2019 (Covid-19) in China that spread all over the world has played a factor in the delay of the shipment of the remaining 2,000 metric tons of trash back to South Korea, the Bureau of Customs in Northern Mindanao (BOC-10) said Wednesday.
A women's group here on Thursday assailed the proposed amendments to the Human Security Act of 2007, saying it is "worse" than the martial law in curtailing people's basic rights and freedom.
In commemoration of International Women's Month this March, a Lumad women's organization in Southern Mindanao Region vowed to remain at the forefront in defending their ancestral lands and asserting their basic rights.