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John Simon, Bureau of Customs-10 district collector, at the virtual awarding ceremony of the Asia Environmental Enforcement Awards conferred by the United Nations to eight Asian environmental advocates, on February 17. Simon received the award for his efforts in returning the thousands of tons of imported garbage from South Korea. (Jigger J. Jerusalem)

Environmental groups push for international accord on waste trafficking anew

Environmental groups reiterated on their stand urging the Philippine government to join other member-states in the Southeast Asian region in ratifying an international statute that will ban the transport of garbage from one country to another.

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Lumad student to military, DepEd: Visit us and sit in our classes

A Lumad student in a Bakwit School in UP Diliman had this response to the recent pronouncement of the Philippine National Police Region 7 that their schools are “training grounds for child warriors."

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USC, church slam ‘rescue’ of Lumad students in Cebu

Police and social workers in Cebu on Monday took custody of 21 Lumad students and arrested tribal elders and school teachers from their “Bakwit School” in the University of San Carlos Talamban campus, claiming this was a “rescue” from a rebel training school.

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