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Jerome Carayao, one of the survivors, offers flowers for the 15 persons killed during the Roxas Night Market deadly bombing two years ago. Carayao joins the families of the victims and city officials in a Mass celebrated by Archbishop Romulo Valle held on Saturday afternoon, September 1, 2019at the Roxas Memorial in Davao City. (Kath M. Cortez/davaotoday.com)

STILL MOURNING

Jerome Carayao, one of the survivors, offers flowers for the 15 persons killed during the Roxas Night Market deadly bombing two years ago. Carayao joins the families of the victims and city officials in a Mass celebrated by Archbishop Romulo Valle held on Saturday afternoon, September 1, 2019at the Roxas Memorial in Davao City. (Kath M. Cortez/davaotoday.com)

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Read more about the article Davao Committee on Women intensifies anti-rape campaign
Davao City Councilor Avegayle Dalodo-Ortiz in a press conference at the City Hall on Tuesday, September 4, 2018. Ortiz, chair of the council's Committee on Women, Children and Family Relations, said rape cases in the city is still alarming despite the decrease on the number of cases compared last year. (Kath M. Cortez/davaotoday.com)

Davao Committee on Women intensifies anti-rape campaign

The head of the Committee on Women here wants to intensify the current anti-rape campaign through massive sex education among youth and children in communities and schools.

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Read more about the article Roxas night market bombing remembered with grief, fear and caution
Jerome Carayao, one of the survivors, offers flowers for the 15 persons killed during the Roxas Night Market deadly bombing two years ago. Carayao joins the families of the victims and city officials in a Mass celebrated by Archbishop Romulo Valle held on Saturday afternoon, September 1, 2019at the Roxas Memorial in Davao City. (Kath M. Cortez/davaotoday.com)

Roxas night market bombing remembered with grief, fear and caution

“It was crowded that night and everyone was busy”. The survivors of the Roxas night market bombing recalled what happened on the night the city was under threat two years ago.

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Read more about the article Davao labor groups frown on Duterte’s “unfulfilled” promise to protect labor
EMPTY PROMISES. Labor groups stage a rallg on Monday, August 27 to demand accountability from President Rodrigo Duterte after his campaign promises remain unfulfilled.(Medel Hernani/davaotoday.com)

Davao labor groups frown on Duterte’s “unfulfilled” promise to protect labor

Progressive labour groups in the Davao region poured into the streets on August 27 to join colleagues nationwide to demand accountability of the Duterte administration over what they said were unfulfilled promises to labor, notably in protecting the rights of workers and better working condition.

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