Women and gay rights advocates in the city joined other multisectoral groups in the country to condemn the brutal killing of Filipina transgender Jeffrey “Jennifer” Laude in a Global Day of Action for Justice held Friday.
The Eastern Mindanao Command (EastMinCom) has ordered a “full investigation” into the fatal shooting of father and his son in New Bataan, Compostela Valley.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has never learned from its past experiences, said the local leader of typhoon Pablo survivors in response to recent reports that spoiled relief goods have reached the evacuees in Albay, Bicol.
A Manila-based independent think tank said the number of children living in dire poverty in the country may reach 25 million if the government will use a poverty line of P100 per child per day.
Lawyers in Manila claimed on Wednesday that the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) between the Philippines and the United States of America “will never work for the national interest.”
Police chief PSupt Solomon De Castilla on Tuesday bared the identity of suspected gunman of slain radio broadcaster Rogelio “Tata” Butalid who was killed December 11 last year.
Various sectoral organizations are now pushing for the turn-over of Private First Class Joseph Scott Pemberton, a US Navy man implicated in the killing of a transgender last Saturday to the Philippine authorities.
Poor girl children stay at home at take a rest instead of buying medicines, says a research by women and children advocate Talikala Incorporated.
A father and his son who were on their way home were reportedly killed by army soldiers last Sunday in Tubod, Manurigao, New Bataan, Compostela Valley.
A military official denied the reported incident of drunken soldiers who fired at communities in Barangay Palma Gil, Talaingod, Davao del Norte.
