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Read more about the article Wanted: Peoples’ lawyers
EMPHASIS. Laywers Neri Colmenares (right) and Roan Libarios (left) stress the importance of public interest lawyers at these times. Laywers group Union of People’s Lawyers in Mindanao had their 4th assembly in Davao City recently. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)

Wanted: Peoples’ lawyers

 “A lot have become victims of injustice and they have no one to defend them.  That’s why public interest lawyering is very much needed and remains relevant” -- Roan Libarios, Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) president

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Read more about the article 26 years after Edsa People Power, not much has changed
NO GENUINE CHANGE. Davao City lawyer Joel Mahinay says there was no fundamental and genuine change in the country’s system of governance after the Edsa People Power. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)

26 years after Edsa People Power, not much has changed

“We’ve been lagging behind in democracy.  It’s the same system.” – Davao City Vice-mayor Rodrigo Duterte

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Read more about the article FACE TO FACE

FACE TO FACE

CHR-XI Director Alberto Sipaco meets the mother and wife of peasants Rudy and Rudyric Dejos who were brutally killed last year in Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur. In the region, they were the first two victims of the Aquino’s Oplan Bayanihan. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)

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Read more about the article WOMEN RESIST

WOMEN RESIST

Women’s group Gabriela scores the economic attacks against women and the people in a picket, March 1 in Davao City. Gabriela also called for the passage of Reproductive Health Bill. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)

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