Human Rights

A group of Filipino-American missionaries from the United States initiated a medical mission for the indigenous peoples presently housed in the evacuation center in a church compound here since Sunday.

A group of breastfeeding advocates asking for wider support, said that working women who are successful in their breastfeeding journey are likely more beneficial to the company.

Indigenous peoples now temporarily settled in a church-owned compound here ask well-meaning groups to help them protect the area which they say is similar to an "ilihan."

A partylist lawmaker from Mindanao brought up the situation of the indigenous people evacuees in a church compound here in a meeting with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons.