An organization of tribal communities on Wednesday scored on the Aquino administration over “the escalating deaths and displacements of Lumads in the country because of large-scale mining projects, and of the implementation of counter insurgency program Oplan Bayanihan”.
A media watchdog said it is not expecting a mention of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Bill during President Benigno Aquino’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) next week on July 28.
Teachers’ groups branded as anti-worker and anti-union the Department of Education’s results-based performance management system (DepEd-RPMS) to rate teachers.
Two university professors here claimed they were “tailed” across three provinces by motorcycle-riding men whom they believed to be members of “state security forces”.
A leader of a small-scale miners group complained that Army troops harassed him to keep him out of a public consultation on open-pit mining operations.