Instead of a festive celebration of the Indigenous People’s month, the Lumads commemorated IP month with a protest putting up a camp at the Rizal Park here coinciding with the resumption of the formal talks between the government and the National Democratic Front on Monday, August 22.
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An estimate of 5,000 indigenous people’s from four provinces in Region 12 gathered at the Rizal Park here Monday, August 22 to protest the continuing injustices towards the Lumads including the issue of environmental destruction.
The last National Democratic Front of the Philippines consultant was released Friday afternoon, August 19, the third from Mindanao to join the peace talks with the Government of the Republic of the Philippines.
What is the relevance of celebrating Kadayawan?
The Kaliwat Performing Arts Collective performs different presentations depicting what is Kadayawan all about during a forum about the celebration at the Ateneo de Davao University Tuesday, August 16. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)
An interior village in Monkayo, Compostela Valley, expressed fear over operation of the Army’s 25th Infantry Battalion in the community, following alleged targeting of its residents in anti-Communist patrols.
The City Government awarded rights to only 137 venders to resume their ukay-ukay vending along Roxas Avenue here, the designated night market area that was closed last week over alleged violation of city government agreement with them.
Social Welfare and Development Secretary Judy Taguiwalo wants a personnel from the DSWD in Region 10 to explain why a suspect of a crime in 2012 became a beneficiary of the CIDSS-NCDDP in 2016.
The father of Makinit Gayuran, who was killed in a wedding celebration last Saturday, July 30, hopes for the suspected killers to be caught.
A Tigwahanon mother, one of the survivors of the indiscriminate firing, nurses her child outside the multi-purpose hall of town center in Barangay Kawayan, San Fernando, Bukidnon. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)