The total cost of the workers’ union demand of salary increase and benefit is only five percent of the two year’s worth of net profit of the air cargo delivery service provider Luzon Brokerage Corporation’s (LBC), a labor group said on Friday.
A new network of government and private organizations here has been created to monitor cases of abuse and violence against women and to give interventions to victims.
The armed forces conduct of Community Organizing for Peace and Development drove the indigenous peoples away from their community, said a humanitarian mission report.
A lumad leader from Davao presented cases of human rights violations (HRVs) committed by the armed forces during the 2015 preparatory meeting on United Nations mechanisms and procedures relating to Indigenous Peoples (IPs).
A community-based school director was threatened by a tribal leader during a committee hearing to discuss military encampents in schools in Talaingod, Davao del Norte, a group said Saturday.
Sixty-two-year old, Catalina Sinoy, a native of Pantukan, Compostela Valley, believes her life and that of her family were easier before compared this year.
A human rights group believes that justice will not be served for the victims of the Ampatuan massacre under the administration of President Benigno Aquino III who they call as the “Impunity King”.
Groups led by the People’s Council for National Unity, Reforms and Peace left here Tuesday morning to visit several towns of Maguindanao province for a humanitarian relief, medical and psychosocial mission.
Advocate groups for women and children are not agreeable to Mayor Rodrigo Duterte’s order of arrest of parents of three street children.
“The 600 warriors who fought to defend Sulu, including the civilians who sought shelter, died because they were too weak to fight as Americans pressed their attacks that outlasted the rations of the defenders,” said Ronnie Imao Adel, 62, descendant of a survivor of the Attack.
