Members of Congress’ Makabayan bloc condemned as “forcible and violent” the attempts to evict tribal families from a church compound here.
Mothers, including soon-to-be moms, and their partners will gather here in a breastfeeding mobilization on August 1 to campaign for breastfeeding of their infants.
Lumads said that like the Army who allegedly hurt them in their villages, the police also did it to them in the city amid an attempt to force them to go home.
Local officials here intervened in the commotion inside an evacuation camp, which the Davao City Police Office raided on Thursday morning.
Bai Bibyaon Bigkay, a Matigsalog leader from Talaingod, Davao del Norte, said she is dismayed with the attitude shown by North Cotabato Representative Nancy Catamco who is now under fire after a dialogue with lumad (tribal) evacuees in Davao City turned sour.
The police here raided early Thursday morning an evacuation camp where 700 indigenous people from Talaingod, Davao del Norte and some parts of Bukidnon province sought sanctuary for months now.
A local official from the town of Caraga in Davao Oriental has filed a resolution urging the local government to regulate the staging of lewd programs after the town’s acting mayor allegedly sponsored an event showing “sensual dancing with suggestive sexual remarks.”
Low water levels of Lake Lanao and Agus and Pulangi dams continue to drop, causing lower power supply in Mindanao areas.
A Datu (tribal leader) of Manobos from Talaingod, Davao del Norte met with with a United Nations official on Monday in Quezon City to discuss how the alleged human rights abuses forced them to leave their communities.
Lawmakers from a women’s partylist group want higher fines and strict monitoring of toxic dumping in the country through a legislative measure.
