After a four-day tour to different communities in Mindanao, an estimated 200 human rights activists from different countries opened the 2nd General Assembly of the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines at the Brokenshire Convention Center on Thursday, July 21.
Being full-time teachers is not easy for them, but quitting the job was never their option.
The City Council heard an entrepreneur proposing a cable car transportation in the city.
The Office of the Ombudsman in Mindanao claimed it has processed cases involving some high-ranking government officials here due to graft and corrupt practices and criminal acts.
Activists who were acquitted of kidnapping charge are planning to file counter charges against the military who allegedly manufactured the complaints filed against them.
Authorities at the Davao City drug rehabilitation center are worried that they could not accommodate the growing number of clients.
Some 200 visitors from 25 countries worldwide will attend a conference on human rights, focusing on the killings of the indigenous peoples or Lumads in Mindanao.
The Duterte administration wants to move the date of resumption of the formal talks with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDF) from third week of July to August this year.
Thousands of indigenous peoples and human rights activists from Davao region prepared for their travel by land going to Manila via Surigao City as early as 5:00 am on Tuesday.
The Department of Heath (DOH) reported that there is a rapid increase of dengue cases here in Region 11 as of the first quarter of this year.
