Human Rights

The SOS network said that Lumad schools have been constantly attacked by government troops. Prior to the Martial Law declaration in Mindanao, there have documented 87 incidents of attacks on schools under the presidency of Rodrigo Duterte starting July 2016.

There are 14 million indigenous peoples in the Philippines, making up about 11% of the country’s population. Almost 60% of them are in Mindanao, comprising 18 ethnolinguistic tribes that are collectively known as Lumad, which literally means “native to the place”.

Families of media workers expressed their dismay over the 30-day extension on the ruling of the decade-old Ampatuan massacre case.

Human rights group Karapatan-Southern Mindanao Region (Karapatan-SMR) demanded the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to immediately surface its former secretary general, Honey May Suazo.

Amid the recent series of questionable arrests of several members of progressive groups, religious and humanitarian organizations slammed the military for accusing them of being alleged "communist fronts".