Young Filipino-Americans who spent a week in Mindanao formed an alliance with their local counterparts to "strengthen" the campaign for human rights and protection of the environment.
Personnel from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), led by head of Mindanao operations Peter Deck, visit Lumad evacuees in a church compound in Davao City. (John Rizle Saligumba/davaotoday.com)
Some leaders of tribal evacuees here claimed they received death threats after a supposed rescue operations by police officers and government agencies failed to remove them from a church compound here, a human rights group said.
A center is being built to take charge of archiving documents, photographs and other records of the city.
An administrator of a school owned by Lumads but run by educators and missionaries from the non-government sector said government appear to receive a “slap in the face” whenever individuals and organizations donate funds, materials and moral support to indigenous peoples.