A lumad leader from Davao presented cases of human rights violations (HRVs) committed by the armed forces during the 2015 preparatory meeting on United Nations mechanisms and procedures relating to Indigenous Peoples (IPs).
A community-based school director was threatened by a tribal leader during a committee hearing to discuss military encampents in schools in Talaingod, Davao del Norte, a group said Saturday.
Sixty-two-year old, Catalina Sinoy, a native of Pantukan, Compostela Valley, believes her life and that of her family were easier before compared this year.
A human rights group believes that justice will not be served for the victims of the Ampatuan massacre under the administration of President Benigno Aquino III who they call as the “Impunity King”.
Groups led by the People’s Council for National Unity, Reforms and Peace left here Tuesday morning to visit several towns of Maguindanao province for a humanitarian relief, medical and psychosocial mission.
Advocate groups for women and children are not agreeable to Mayor Rodrigo Duterte’s order of arrest of parents of three street children.
“The 600 warriors who fought to defend Sulu, including the civilians who sought shelter, died because they were too weak to fight as Americans pressed their attacks that outlasted the rations of the defenders,” said Ronnie Imao Adel, 62, descendant of a survivor of the Attack.
Four days before the commemoration of the International Women’s Day, a group of human rights activist will hold protest actions to call for the release of women political prisoners.
The Kilusang Mayo Uno Southern Mindanao filed “a formal complaint against the Philippine government with the International Labour Organization (ILO) for violating Convention 87 and 98” before the Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) XI Thursday.
More than 300 tribal members of different tribal communities in Mindanao gathered here on Tuesday to call the attention of government to scrap the military’s Oplan Bayanihan which they claim as “causing havoc in the hinterlands.”
