The issue of the Talaingod Manobo displacement would be raised by an indigenous peoples woman leader in the ongoing 13th United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York starting last May 12 to 23.
Prolonged power outages have angered first-time registrants during the city’s continuing voter’s registration at the Commission on Election.
Because it was not registered as a corporation, collection of payments made by the Davao del Norte Electric Cooperative (Daneco), under the wing of National Electrification Administration (NEA), is “illegal.”
Davao activists expressed alarm that they might be the next target of arrests and “trumped-up” charges by the military in the wake of recent incidence of rights abuses. This, as a partylist congressman condemned what he calls as the use of “fall guy trick(s)” to justify illegal arrests.
Mounting offensives from both Armed Forces of the Philippines and the New People's Army have escalated in the past weeks as the government peace panel snubbed proposals to re-open talks with the National Democratic Front.