In the midst of continuing threats against their schools in Mindanao, more than a hundred displaced students of ?L?umad schools who joined the “Kampuhan” will continue their schooling in a state university in Quezon City.
The Save Our Schools Network said it was assured ?by? the Commission on Human Rights ?that it ?will investigate the reported attacks ?of Lumad schools and communities in Mindanao when CHR chairperson Chito Gascon visited them on Saturday, Aug. 5.
Northern Mindanao’s indigenous peoples (IPs) are still optimistic President Rodrigo Duterte will act on their complaints of alleged abuses perpetrated by state agents against them as they submitted a report on these violations to the Commission on Human Rights (CHR-10) in the region.
Progressive groups here condemned the surge of different forms of red-baiting, which have become more ?conspicuous after President Rodrigo Duterte recently terminated the peace talks, and declared an all-out war against the New People’s Army.
The recently concluded second wave of the National Interfaith Humanitarian Mission reported more than 300 cases of various human rights violations ?in the course of containing the Marawi ?City ?terror attack.