Human Rights

Visitors: A Lumad’s tale of hardships

Visitors: A Lumad’s tale of hardships

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Dec 19, 2015

Life in the countryside is hard says Julieta Canoman, a Matigsalog mother of four, and this makes her and other Lumad villagers to come down to downtown Davao City on Christmases to have the opportunity to receive whatever the city residents would have to give them.

Make migrant concerns an election issue

Make migrant concerns an election issue

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Dec 16, 2015

Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) seamstress Judith Reyes sought help from the Overseas Workers Welfare Association (OWWA) after she she had been discriminated while working in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, due to non-renewal of her residence permit or “iqama”.