Around 15 teachers and school administrators of a private school in Baganga town Davao Oriental were stopped at a military checkpoint due to an alleged encounter between the army and the New People’s Army.
A network of education rights advocates has recorded 95 cases of attacks against teachers and students in Lumad schools all over Mindanao since September last year.
A group assisting survivors of prostitution said that the majority of the patrons of prostitution here are Filipino males.
As teachers commemorate World Teachers' Day today, educators in a village school in Kitaotao town, Bukidnon province are concerned after their village chief ordered the demolition of their high school structures.
Governor Johnny Pimentel of Surigao del Sur renews his calls to disband paramilitary forces who are allegedly responsible for the killing of officers of a tribal school and the evacuation of thousands of residents now camped at Tandag City provincial sports complex.