More than a hundred student leaders and campus journalists from the seven campuses of the University of the Philippines in the country visited the evacuation camp of indigenous peoples’ inside the United Church of Christ in the Philippines, Haran compound here.
The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) said that out of nine journalists killed in the country last year, “at least three were killed in the line of duty”.
The suspect in the killing of indigenous peoples' leaders and a school director in a town in Surigao del Sur last September 1, was seen partying a day before New Year’s eve in a village near a military detachment.
The Integrated Bar of the Philippines pledged to fulfill its promise to support the Lumads on their struggles right after its visit to the camp out in Metro Manila last November.
Party-list group Anakpawis said the government did not do enough to stop the execution of Joselito Zapanta, an overseas Filipino worker in Saudi Arabia who was sentenced to death for killing a Sudanese national back in 2009.