The 3,000 strong Lumad and Moro leaders alliance called Sandugo demanded for the abolition of the National Commission for Indigenous Peoples for its failure to address the issues of the national minorities.
A group that opposed the burial of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos’ at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (Heroes’ Cemetery) lauded Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s position that it would “respect the Supreme Court’s decision.”
Philippine movie actor Robin Padilla said it is high time that both Lumad and Moro people should rule over their ancestral land.
Saying the traffic woes here are no different in Metro Manila, a city councilor urged the city’s inclusion in the transportation infrastructure plan to be implemented through emergency powers by the Duterte administration.
Passengers of Philippine Airlines complained on Sunday about the way it handled the situation when 50 international and domestic flights were cancelled due to typhoon Karen.
A New York-based human rights watchdog has expressed doubt that the “Presidential Task Force on Violations of the Right to Life, Liberty and Security of the Members of the Media” of the Duterte administration to probe media slays in the Philippines would carry out an impartial probe into the cases.
The second round of the peace talks between the government of the Philippines and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines took place at a hotel some 18 kilometers away from the main city of Oslo in Norway.
A women’s party-list group said it is high time that Philippines should assert its sovereignty by ending the US-Philippine patrols in the contested West Philippine sea.
UP Diliman chancellor Dr. Michael Tan in his opening remarks said that the event is an important in the university’s history, akin to the First Quarter Storm and the Diliman commune.
One of the plans of the Joint Monitoring Committee of both the government and the National Democratic Front is to propose the inclusion of the CARHRIHL or the comprehensive agreement on the respect for human rights and the International Humanitarian Law in the curriculum of the Department of Education.
