Amancio Carmelo, the secretary-general for Southern Mindanao of the progressive peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas, survived an assassination attempt…
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Filipinos in Europe, through Migrante, welcome the call in the Philippines to encourage independent foreign observers to monitor the mid-term…
SUFFERING WOMEN. This political art, seen at the Davao offices of the women’s group Gabriela, depicts the abuses women, particularly…
Human rights in the Philippines: A worsening atrocity
Jerson Lastimoso, one of the four banana-plantation workers and union members from Compostela Valley province who were ambushed by unidentified…
Human rights in Mindanao: A year of living dangerously
Blood banana: Companies use the military to oppress workers
EDIA RELEASE December 15, 2006 Compostela union leader, 3 others critically wounded by gunshots Vicente “Boy” Barrios, president of the…
The leader of a union of banana workers in Compostela Valley province and three other members were shot by unidentified…
Fernando Alia at the Davao Medical Center, the last of the Alia boys. (davaotoday.com photo by Cheryll D. Fiel) Last…
