President Rodrigo Duterte has declared a unilateral ceasefire with the Communist Party of the Philippines in a bid to provide an environment suitable for the resumption of peace talks.
The National Nutrition Council-XI said child stunting in the region has reached 13.85 percent, with a 30 percent estimate of people who are suffering long-term malnutrition.
This is the first time that the rally of progressive groups had no engagement with police authorities, with rallyists holding their own version of the State of the Nation Address only a few hundred meters away from Batasan Complex Monday, July 25.
Global activists who met here for the International Conference for Peoples’ Rights in the Philippines (ICPRP) said President Rodrigo Duterte’s State of the Nation Address (Sona) should tackle peoples’ rights and peace talk, among other issues, in what they called concrete programs for the people.
Two of the Philippines’ church leaders share what they hope to hear in President Rodrigo Duterte’s first State of the Nation Address on Monday, July 25.
Video by: Paulo C. Rizal
Two of the Philippines’ church leaders share what they hope to hear in President Rodrigo Duterte’s first State of the Nation Address on Monday, July 25.
Video by: Paulo C. Rizal
Two days before his first State of the Nation Address, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte signed the executive order on the Freedom of Information (FOI) here on Saturday night, July 23.
While the people’s support for the Duterte administration’s war on drugs is “overwhelming”, some leaders are proposing that the government should implement a more comprehensive approach on the anti-drugs campaign.
A former partylist lawmaker who has attended protest rallies during the State of the Nation Address of the past Philippine presidents since 1998 said the rally on the first SONA of President Rodrigo Duterte will be different.
Social Welfare and Development Secretary Judy Taguiwalo said that the agency is ready to assist Lumad evacuees who are occupying an area inside the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) Haran, pending an order from President Rodrigo Duterte.
