Thousands of distressed OFWs await gov’t action in tent cities in Riyadh, Jeddah

By CHERYLL D. FIEL
Davao Today

Gary Martinez, International Chairperson of Migrante says their organization has helped 15 of these OFWs finally return to the country last Saturday, two of them are from Davao City.  “They can talk about how they were treated by embassy officials in Riyadh,” he says.

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60-year old organizer abducted Palparan-style, still missing

By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today

Rights activists here can’t simply brush the idea that the newly appointed officer-in-charge of the Philippine Army’s 4th Infantry Division has a hand on this matter.  For after all, they claimed, Brigadier General Ricardo Visaya and Palparan “had been working closely in the past and share the same image of being human rights violators.” 

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