A farmer’s wife said her husband in Montevista town, Compostela Valley province committed suicide hours before his “scheduled interview” with military troops on Tuesday, June 8.
Human rights advocates of Karapatan Southern Mindanao (SMR) group protested in front of the office of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) XI to express their dismay with the continuing human rights violations in Davao region.
Maria Elena Escandor, whose husband Romeo from Compostela Valley is one of the 72 political prisoners in Southern Mindanao region, is hoping that her husband will soon be reunited with their family after 10 years in jail.
The City Council here passed on second reading an ordinance prescribing the imposition of fees for the services of Davao City treatment and rehabilitation center.
The LGBT community here expressed condemnation of the Orlando, Florida shooting that killed at least 49 people, and injured 53 others.
Barangays here were asked to help eliminate child labor in the city.
Bullet holes on walls and ceilings, scattered clothes, damaged farm materials and missing poultry greet survivors of a massacre in this interior town as they go back to their house for an independent investigation on Saturday, June 4.
Under DOLE’s child labor prevention and elimination program, it has extended livelihood assistance worth P1.7 million in 2015 for 398 parents of identified child laborers.
Even with the passage of a landmark ordinance that promotes and advances women’s rights, the city still has long way to go to end the “macho culture”, a woman leader here said.
Davao region will celebrate the 2016 Migrant Workers Day on June 7 to recognize the immense contribution of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) to the national economy of the country.
