Filipina comfort women group Lila Pilipina is expecting President Rodrigo Duterte to bring up their issue during the President’s meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
A youth environment activist who was gunned down last Oct. 13 in Compostela Valley province was allegedly on drug watch list, police authorities said Friday.
Former partylist lawmakers said that Wednesday's violent dispersal of a protest action at the US Embassy, despite lacking permits, should not have been violently dispersed.
The family members of Jimmy Saypan together with farmers and activists stormed on Tuesday the headquarters of the Eastern Mindanao Command of the Armed Forces of the Philippines here to seek justice for his death.
Over 50 protesters were hurt and 29 were nabbed following a violent dispersal during a rally at the U.S Embassy here Wednesday morning.