Human rights group Karapatan here said a group of armed men attempted to forcibly enter their office at around 7:00 pm Monday.
A letter, originally written in Bahasa, from an Indonesian doctor to overseas Filipino worker Mary Jane Veloso was translated to English and is posted in Facebook.
Militant women’s group, Gabriela, held a protest action on Monday in front of the Eastern Mindanao Command headquarters here to call for the surrender of a military personnel charged with rape in Bukidnon.
A local chapter of a journalist group said it is outraged over the termination of around 200 employees of a television network a little over a week before the commemoration of the International Labor Day.
Rank-and-file employees of the city government will start to receive a maximum of P20,000 as part of their collective negotiation agreement (CNA) this week, said a city official.
A Moro group condemned the killing of children and women including several civilians at a Moro community in Sitio Mangampong in Barangay Park Area, Wao town in Lanao del Sur.
Activists here lighted candles in support of the campaign to save the life of an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) now facing death sentence by firing squad in Nusakumbangan island, Indonesia this Tuesday (April 28).
The support of an international funding organization for the maintenance and preventive drug of those infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in the Philippines will end in June, said a City Health official.
About 1,000 indigenous peoples from five different areas of Mindanao staged on Thursday a human chain outside the Armed Forces’ Eastern Mindanao Command here to protest alleged abuses in tribal areas.
A church who has been active in helping in the release of government soldiers captured by communist guerrillas said it is harassed by the military for giving sanctuary to children of the Higaonon tribe.
