Some 500 farmers and residents in Barangay Ngan in Compostela Valley barricaded a barangay road to block the entry of mining company Agusan Petroleum and Minerals Corp.
About 1,000 indigenous peoples from five different areas of Mindanao staged on Thursday a human chain outside the Armed Forces’ Eastern Mindanao Command here to protest alleged abuses in tribal areas.
Some 5,000 workers are set to join a rally being organized by the militant Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) on May 1 to celebrate the International Labor day and to commemorate the group’s 35th founding anniversary.
Members of the LBC Davao Employees Union held a protest action during their lunch break on Tuesday.
The New People’s Army in Bukidnon launched five military actions in a span of three days, offensives which they say, are meant to support the Moro people.
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) has ordered the release of three cops held captive by the New People’s Army in Surigao del Norte today (Thursday).
Public school teachers want to suspend a memo of the local division of the Department of Educaiton (DepEd) subjecting teachers to mandatory drug and neuropsychiatric tests saying it is “unnecessary, degrading, insulting, devoid of any legal basis and will add to the teachers’ expenses.”
A farmer’s group said they are among what Pope Francis referred to as the poor in peripheries in the Philippines that the Church should help.
Thousands of protesters joined the commemoration of the International Human Rights day in different parts of the region Wednesday.
Contingents of a human rights caravan from Mindanao to Manila, Manilakbayan, is now preparing their legal documents to file a case against the Philippine National Police-Quezon City Police District (PNP-QCPD) officerPolice Superintendent Col. Pedro Sanchez and his subordinates, following a violent dispersal last November 29 that left fifteen injured including two media practitioners.
