By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
Pikit town received a total of 30,816 bags of rice and 444 bags of beans for the whole duration of the feeding program. WFP has allocated a total of 124,918 bags of rice and 2,505 bags of beans for the whole province.
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
For Davao police chief Dela Rosa, “diskarte na lang.” Loosely translated, this means that officers design creative ways to deal with the different situations especially if they involve minors and children.
By DANILDA L. FUSILERO
Davao Today
Retired professor Vilma Gonzales of the local Network of Women raised her doubts over the country’s international ranking in gender relations as “sexual abuses, rape, among others still abound with most perpetrators go unpunished.”
By PAUL RANDY P. GUMANAO
Davao Today
The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) defines ‘corporal’ or ‘physical’ punishment as any punishment that makes use of physical force to cause pain or discomfort. Unicef goes on to say that corporal punishment usually involves hitting, for example, slapping or spanking children with the hand or with an implement. The CRC views corporal punishment as invariably degrading.
By KENETTE JEAN I. MILLONDAGA
Davao Today
She was not simply the wife of an indigenous anti-mining activist. Juvy Capion, the woman killed in what is now called the Tampakan massacre, was a farmer, mother of four, and leader of the Blaan community.
By RG PALUA GUMANAO
Davao Today
April Grace Mirasol observes that justice for Fr. Pops seems elusive, but she cannot understand why the investigators are yet unable to find all the perpetrators that she believes are not unknown to the authorities.
By Danilda L. Fusilero
DAVAO TODAY
The notorious rape of one university student involving the kin of influencial Montawal clan in adjacent Datu Montawal municipality in Maguindanao also took place in one lodging house in Kabacan in 2008.
By MICK M. BASA
MOTHER’S WOES. It’s all in the day’s work for this young mother and her sleeping tot at the back of…
