Human trafficking victims like Mary Jane Veloso, who is still on death row in Indonesia, should not be blamed for their condition, said an international group.
“We had no choice but to fight back since the company was making us work like carabaos.”
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.
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).
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.
Another multinational banana company in the region succumbed to workers’ protest revoking its implementation of the piece rate scheme which was criticized for cutting workers’ wage by more than half.
Farmers living in the area in the University of the Philippines Mindanao compound where the city and UP is set to build an P8-billion sports complex said they cannot give-up their lots as it remains to be their only source of livelihood.
A militant leader of the Higaonon tribe in Bukidnon lamented he is facing “trumped-up” murder charges by a relative who claimed that her husband was killed by the New People’s Army.
