Youth & Children

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…

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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."

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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.

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