Women’s rights advocates question PHL’s gender equality performance

By DANILDA L. FUSILERO Davao Today Retired professor Vilma Gonzales of the local Network of Women raised her doubts over the country’s international ranking in gender relations as “sexual abuses, rape, among others still abound with most perpetrators go unpunished.” 

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Obama’s reelection yields no fundamental shift in foreign policy, militants say

By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today For lawyer Carlos Zarate, Bayan Muna Party’s second nominee, Obama’s win “only means a continuation and perpetuation of the same policies that for decades spawned a continuing state of impunity in poor countries” like the Philippines.

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