On the dawn of January 15, farmlands of the family Villavicencio and the Sitio Nursery of Barangay Ngan in Compostela were reported to have been bulldozed by the controversial mining company operating in the area.
An official of the Department of Labor and Employment in the region admitted that they have limitations in monitoring the strict implementation of the three-year old Kasambahay Law, which is meant to protect domestic helpers in the country.
The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP)’s new city jail warden lamented the congested state of Davao city jail.
Leaders of Compostela Farmers Association (CFA) trooped to the Commission on Human Rights Region XI office here on Monday morning to file their complaints against members of the Army who were “harassing” them.
More than a hundred student leaders and campus journalists from the seven campuses of the University of the Philippines in the country visited the evacuation camp of indigenous peoples’ inside the United Church of Christ in the Philippines, Haran compound here.
The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) said that out of nine journalists killed in the country last year, “at least three were killed in the line of duty”.
The suspect in the killing of indigenous peoples’ leaders and a school director in a town in Surigao del Sur last September 1, was seen partying a day before New Year’s eve in a village near a military detachment.
The Integrated Bar of the Philippines pledged to fulfill its promise to support the Lumads on their struggles right after its visit to the camp out in Metro Manila last November.
Party-list group Anakpawis said the government did not do enough to stop the execution of Joselito Zapanta, an overseas Filipino worker in Saudi Arabia who was sentenced to death for killing a Sudanese national back in 2009.
A child rights’ advocate group reminded Mayor Rodrigo Duterte that poverty is still the cause of crimes in the country.
