Half of all Filipino women live below poverty line, according to a study conducted by the Center for Women’s Resources.
Several kins of Filipino workers killed in a hotel fire in Iraq refused to sign documents sent by the victims' employer as they doubt that by doing so would mean an unresolved closure.
In a gathering held here on Saturday, February 27, around 300 women from several parts of Mindanao converged to discuss and draft a pro-women’s agenda that will be presented to Davao’s tough-talking mayor.
The family of Datu Vicente S. Amboy, the vice- tribal chief of Barangay Sua-on in Kapalong town, who was gunned down by four unidentified gunmen is blaming the New People’s Army for the killing, a police official said.
The 14-year-old boy alleged as a child soldier was a small-scale child laborer, a child rights group said.