Poor sanitation, lack of water supply, malnutrition, poor resistance to diseases and heavy congestion continue to threaten the health of evacuees in Surigao del Sur. “They experience not only human rights violations,” a human-rights advocate said. “Their basic right to health services are also not being answered by government.”
If media persons in Manila are raising a howl for being detained for hours without committing a crime, imagine how hard it would be for one to be sentenced to about six years in prison just because one could not afford a lawyer.
Datu Bago remains a controversial figure in Davao history because different people use different lenses in looking at him. Some…
PASAKA, a regional formation membering 25 lumad organizations in Southern Mindanao and North Cotobato condemned the military operations in the…
THE Davao Industry Cluster Capacity Enhancement Project (DICCEP), a two-and-a-half year project initiated by the Department of Trade and Industry…
Press Release December 2, 2007 The Exodus of the Lumad Communities of Lagangan and Km. 22, Anahao Daan evacuees swell…
For the militants in Davao City, if there is one thing to learn from the botched coup at the Manila Peninsula Hotel led by Lt. Senior grade Antonio Trillanes IV and Brigadier General Danilo Lim, it should be this: “Banking on spontaneity is not enough.”
A protester pelting an image of President Arroyo with rotten tomatoes during the Bonifacio Day rally in Davao City. More photos of the rally here. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
While we express indignation in the detention of Bishop Julio Labayen, former Vice President Teofisto Guingona, Jr, media people and…
Reporters Without Borders condemned the arrests of several dozen journalists covering a failed coup attempt at a Manila hotel where…
