When teenagers and advocates gathered to celebrate the National Children’s month here, they skipped the drug menace and focused on what they knew and experienced the harshest: selling their bodies to survive
More than a hundred participants from various sectors in the city danced to the song titled “Bangon na sa Rebolusyon” to signify their support to the launching of One Billion Rising campaign for next year.
The human rights group Karapatan here said they recorded the 55th case of political killing in the region two days after President Rodrigo Duterte formally ended the talks with the communists.
Indigenous people from Mindanao travelled for more than a thousand miles just to let the public know about the dire situation of their schools.
MAGUINDANAO, Philippines – On November 19, more than a hundred families of victims and journalists travelled in a convoy of…
Families, including colleagues of the 58 killed in the Ampatuan massacre at Sitio Masalay, Barangay Salman, Ampatuan, Maguindanao, were here on Sunday, November 19, to commemorate the single deadliest election-related violence in the history of the Philippines.
“Defending Journalism”, a book tackling the safety of journalists, was launched in Davao City on Saturday, November 13.
Despite the barrage of criticisms it received, the Department of Education maintains that public schools across the country are “zones of peace” despite groups contradicting such claim.
President Rodrigo Duterte’s plan to declare the New People’s Army as a terrorist group have caused a chilling effect to the Lumad children in Mindanao, progressive groups said.
After eight years, the families of the slain victims of the infamous Ampatuan massacre would be able to see a flicker of hope as a resolution of the case is at hand, a lone private prosecutor said on Friday.
