Escalating rights abuses against anti-mining, environmental activists slammed
By DANILDA L. FUSILERO Davao Today Indigenous peoples’ activists cited 27 cases of extra-judicial killing have occurred under the present administration.
North Cotabato councilors ok ordinance on positive discipline for kids
By PAUL RANDY P. GUMANAO Davao Today The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) defines ‘corporal’ or ‘physical’ punishment as any punishment that makes use of physical force to cause pain or discomfort. Unicef goes on to say that corporal punishment usually involves hitting, for example, slapping or spanking children with the hand or with an implement. The CRC views corporal punishment as invariably degrading.
Nothing to celebrate on IPRA’s 15th year, party-list says
By DANILDA L. FUSILERO Davao Today “The IPRA law only served as a tool to legally plunder our ancestral lands. The law, in its present form, cannot provide the realization and attainment of our rights” -- Francesca Tolentino, secretary general of the Katribu Partylist
MILF gets advice: seek active defense
By John Rizle L.Saligumba Davao Today Madlos said that the NDFP calls on other legitimate Moro armed groups and the Moro people to strengthen their struggle in two fronts. “First, in the assertion of basic human and political rights, persist and broaden the Moro mass movement by the thousands; and second, strengthen and further intensify the Moro armed revolutionary resistance against our common enemy – the fascist state and its armed forces, and US military interventionist forces.”
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