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”.
Lindy Yambanao, a 23 year-old Matigsalug-Kulamanon tribal woman from Kitaotao, Bukidnon gave birth to a baby boy, her fourth child Tuesday afternoon in a make-shift shelter house inside an evacuation center here.
Over 6,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) were deployed abroad every year but not all of them were accounted by the government, a migrant advocacy group said.
Some 133 survivors of Typhoon Pablo from Compostela town in Compostela Valley Province returned home today after hearing news that the Army has left their community.
A total of 120 Manobo evacuees from Bukidnon returned to their homes Sunday after military forces were reported to have pulled-out from their communities in the past weeks.
Various church groups today vowed to stand against human trafficking describing it as an “absolute evil” which denies dignity of the victims.
Partylist lawmakers today urged the government to pass the Human Rights Defenders Bill which provides penalties for violations of the rights of human rights workers.
An alliance of child rights advocates called on the government to act swiftly on stopping the attacks against indigenous peoples schools who are closed on allegations that they are run by the New People’s Army.
An interfaith network supporting the indigenous peoples rights is launched in a hotel in Cagayan de Oro today.
Lumads trooped to the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) XI to protest the occupation of the 66th Infantry Battalion in their community in Compostela Valley.
