By LORIE ANN CASCARO Davao Today DAVAO CITYJai-jai, an eight-month old baby, smiled at my camera. She seemed lighter now…
Davao City — Viewers clapped as John Ray Batucan offered a handshake to Ruel Bucaling, Jr. indicating the end of…
An interfaith mission deplores the government’s all-out war in Central Mindanao for causing trauma and suffering among hundreds and thousands…
By CJ KUIZON | Davao Today
Funded by the United Nations children’s fund (Unicef), the Ibon book delves into the lives of women and children living in areas under the influence of the New People’s Army (NPA) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), hence, the subject of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) operations.
By CJ KUIZON | Davao Today
Ma. Esmeralda Macaspac, CRC executive director, said the statements made by Colonel Marlou Salazar, 601st brigade commander, were “irresponsible and cowardly.” She pointed out that five of the six children who were killed were below ten years old, slamming the military’s penchant for branding children that they have killed in their operations as “child warriors.”
By GERMELINA A. LACORTE | Davao Today
The June 4 decision of the Japan Supreme Court will reverse the old law which only grants nationality to Japanese-Filipino children whose parents were married legally. The new law will include children whose parents are not legally married.
The result is Charlie Green. If you combine the simplicity of a Filipina-Cebuana and a British crooner, the result is…
A total of 83 Lumad (indigenous) children are forced to leave their homes in Compostela and Monkayo towns as government troops continue their operations against the New People’s Army. Often caught in the crossfire, sometimes subjected to military harassments and intimidation, more than 30 Lumad families leave their homes and end up in Davao City’s Bankerohan gym on May 16, where they take refuge. The evacuees first stayed in Compostela gym, but were hounded by government troops there. Click here for more photos. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
The KABIBA Alliance for Children’s Concerns is alarmed over the increasing number of children affected by armed conflict and development…
Scholars from the Philippine Science High School southern Mindanao campus (PSHS-SMC) Wayne Isaac T. Uy and Anne Marie L. Go…
