Gabriela-SMR slams dismissal of minor’s rape case
Davao City-- Gabriela today lambasted the dismissal of the rape case filed by 16-year old "Emily" against six men in July last year. In a resolution filed last January 4,…
Librado urges support for protection of children vs trafficking
Davao City ? City councilor and Council for the Welfare of Children Davao City chairperson Atty. Angela Librado-Trinidad urged here today all concerned individuals and cause-oriented groups to participate in…
Surigao refugees want to go home for Christmas
By GERMELINA A. LACORTE | Davao Today
Poor sanitation, lack of water supply, malnutrition, poor resistance to diseases and heavy congestion continue to threaten the health of evacuees in Surigao del Sur. "They experience not only human rights violations," a human-rights advocate said. "Their basic right to health services are also not being answered by government."Duterte says rape, not poverty, could be behind Mariannet’s suicide
By CHERYLL D. FIEL | Davao Today
Mayor Rodrigo Duterte suspected the 12-year-old Mariannet Amper could have been raped, based on the findings bared by the medico legal officer who conducted the autopsy. The mayor, who ordered the girl?s body exhumed five days after burial, said it was possible that rape could have driven the girl to kill herself. He also said that it?s also possible that someone could have killed her.Suicide of 12-year-old girl moves pastor to paint, child worker to compose verses
"My Diary" by Pastor Jurie Jaime. (davaotoday.com photo by Cheryll D. Fiel)
By CHERYLL D. FIEL | Davao Today
The suicide of the 12-year-old girl has moved a pastor to paint; a child?s advocacy group volunteer to write verses, and government and civil society group to press the government for more attention to children?s rights. The night after he heard about the girl?s death from the television news, Pastor Jurie Jaime, of the United Christ of the Philippines (UCCP) in Tibungco, stayed up in his parsonage throughout the wee hours in the morning, crying and angrily splashing paint on his canvass.- Go to the previous page
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