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Maranao leaders urge government to extend financial assistance to business owners in Marawi ?City so they can recover from their losses due to the fighting there between state forces and armed extremists. In the photo are Sultan Nasser Sampaco (left), chairman of the Marawi Sultanate League, and Sultan Ysmael Ali, the sultan of Balo-i, Lanao del Norte, and member of the Sixteen Royal Sultanate of Lanao. (Jigger J. Jerusalem/davaotoday.com)

Mindanao lawmakers support Marawi rehab budget

Some Mindanao lawmakers have expressed their support for the rehabilitation of the besieged Marawi City through allocation of funds as the Lower House has started deliberating the budget for next year.

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Read more about the article CHR assures Lumad group to probe attacks
CHR VISITS LUMAD IN UP. Officials and staff of the Commission on Human Rights, led by CHR Chairman Chito Gascon, meet with the Lumad from Mindanao who are staying at the University of the Philippines – Diliman International Center on Saturday, August 5, 2017.The Lumad are in Manila to protest and lobby to government agencies the reported attacks on Lumad schools and communities. (Contributed photo)

CHR assures Lumad group to probe attacks

The Save Our Schools Network said it was assured ?by? the Commission on Human Rights ?that it ?will investigate the reported attacks ?of Lumad schools and communities in Mindanao when CHR chairperson Chito Gascon visited them on Saturday, Aug. 5.

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Read more about the article NDFP: Mayor Parojinog a condemned man, but bloody raid in Ozamiz is ‘extra-judicial death sentence’
MOURNING. The local government of Ozamis City puts the Philippine Flag in half mast during their flag raising program, Monday morning, a day after City Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog was killed in a shoot out during the service of search warrants at his house for allegedly possessing illegal firearms, ammunitions and explosives. Aside from Parojinog, his wife, two siblings and eleven others were also killed in the said police operation. (Divina M. Suson/davaotoday.com)

NDFP: Mayor Parojinog a condemned man, but bloody raid in Ozamiz is ‘extra-judicial death sentence’

The National Democratic Front in Zamboanga said the killing of Ozamiz City Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog Jr., his wife Susan and 14 others is an “extra-judicial death sentence.”

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Read more about the article Lumad group files HRV complaints at CHR-10
Datu Jomorito Goaynon (left), chairman of the Kalumbay Regional Lumad Organization, says the human rights violations committed by state agents have continued even under President Rodrigo Duterte. At left is Amelia Omandam, whose husband Alfredo Omandam were among those arrested by authorities in Barangay New Eden in Pangantucan, Bukidnon recently. She said Alfredo's arrest was illegal. (Jigger J. Jerusalem/davaotoday.com)

Lumad group files HRV complaints at CHR-10

Northern Mindanao’s indigenous peoples (IPs) are still optimistic President Rodrigo Duterte will act on their complaints of alleged abuses perpetrated by state agents against them as they submitted a report on these violations to the Commission on Human Rights (CHR-10) in the region.

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Read more about the article LGBTIQ community pushes for equality of rights in diverse Mindanao culture
Members of the LGBT community carry a giant rainbow flag as they march against discrimination during the first Pride March in Davao City on Wednesday, June 1. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com file photo)

LGBTIQ community pushes for equality of rights in diverse Mindanao culture

While the Philippines in general remains to be a relatively safe place for the LGBTIQ or lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer community compared to other Southeast Asian countries, the country still lacks national policies that shall protect their rights, advocates here said.

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