“I do this as a pastime because I have nothing to do at home, so I started going with my friends.”
A Davao City-based child rights advocate lauded the initiative of the city government for creating a hotline to cater child abuse reports.
Thousands of farmers, mostly indigenous peoples, from nearby towns in the region trooped to Davao on Tuesday to demand for farm subsidies and food aid, citing the effects of the dry spell as continuing to make life difficult.
Filipina comfort women group Lila Pilipina is expecting President Rodrigo Duterte to bring up their issue during the President’s meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
A youth environment activist who was gunned down last Oct. 13 in Compostela Valley province was allegedly on drug watch list, police authorities said Friday.
Former partylist lawmakers said that Wednesday’s violent dispersal of a protest action at the US Embassy, despite lacking permits, should not have been violently dispersed.
The family members of Jimmy Saypan together with farmers and activists stormed on Tuesday the headquarters of the Eastern Mindanao Command of the Armed Forces of the Philippines here to seek justice for his death.
Over 50 protesters were hurt and 29 were nabbed following a violent dispersal during a rally at the U.S Embassy here Wednesday morning.
Department of Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Regina “Gina” Lopez visited today the wake of Jimmy Saipan, a farmer and anti-mining activist, who was gunned down by unknown assailants last Oct. 10 at Barangay New Visayas in Montevista town, Compostela Valley.
Leaders and representatives of 3,000 Lumad and Moro groups from all over the country formed a national alliance called “Sandugo: Kilusan ng Moro at Katutubong Mamamayan para sa Sariling Pagpapasya” (Alliance of Moro and Indigenous Peoples for Self Determination) at the GT-Toyota Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman last Saturday.
