By DANILDA L. FUSILERO Davao Today “Ours was a prenda-arendo contract and we have agreed to plant organic rice only. Now, why are they forcing us to plant bananas?”-- Gil Piquero, Chairperson of Kahugpungan sa mga Mag-uuma sa San Isidro
By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today RA 9710 or the Magna Carta for Women mandates the delivery of necessary services and intervention to women in difficult circumstances that include women in detention, and children, as well, under RA 9344 or the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act of 2006.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today “They insisted we are NPAs because we live in the mountains. But I told them that we lumads don’t live in urban areas, rather in the hinterlands because it is where we get our source of living” -- Datu Tinoy Noa
By DANILDA L. FUSILERO Davao Today Through wildlife and eagle habitat protection, the Municipal Environmental and Natural Resources Office is optimistic that deforestation will be controlled in their municipality.