Environmental group Panalipdan said government soldiers in Compostela Valley province arrested their member John Claudio Maniquez, 21, a resident of Sitio Sirangan, Barangay Kingking, Pantukan on Monday evening, September 19.
In a statement on Monday, September 19, the NUJP said the attacks against freelance journalist Gretchen Malalad and Al-Jazeera correspondent Jamela Alindogan-Caudron “have gone beyond legitimate criticism of their professional output to outright threats on their persons.”
Dennis Larida lost his wife and their only son at the Davao night market bombing on September 2, 2016.
President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday, September 18, asked for another six months extension to end crime and illegal drugs.
A teachers’ group said the government should not only hire more teachers but also address the shortage of classrooms and congested public schools.
After almost a year in captivity with terrorist group Abu Sayyaf, President Rodrigo Duterte received Norwegian hostage Kjartan Sekkingstad on Sunday, September 18.
Eleanor Roa Duterte elder sister of President Rodrigo Duterte said she would press charges against the alleged former Davao Death Squad (DDS) member Edgar Matobato who drag her sister Jocelyn Duterte and the President into the alleged DDS killings in the city .
Activists here commemorated the 25th year since 12 Senators voted to reject the RP-US Bases treaty of 1991 by protesting alleged human rights violations committed by United States military and called for the termination of the agreements that allow the presence of American soldiers in Philippine territory.
Members of Bagong Alysansang Makabayan here picketed the Department of Social Welfare and Development Region 11 Office in Davao City on Thursday, September 15 to remind the agency of their promise to help the Lumad evacuees staying inside a church compound here.
The Human Rights Watch is urging the Philippine government to invite the United Nations to look into the accusations of a witness who claimed to be a former “hitman” linking President Rodrigo Duterte to extrajudicial killings.
