Human Rights

North Cotabato councilors ok ordinance on positive discipline for kids

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Nov 01, 2012

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.

A woman’s place in the Blaan’s struggle for land

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Oct 23, 2012

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.

UCCP holds caravan for environment and human rights

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Oct 23, 2012

By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today

Bishop Melzar Labuntog said UCCP leaders and workers join with the indigenous peoples in their struggle for their ancestral lands, the protection of the environment and uphold human rights. “We dedicate these candles to them who died defending their rights,” Bishop Nabuntog said at the caravan’s kick-off ceremony at Freedom Park in Davao City, Monday.

Outrage sweeps Mindanao over Tampakan massacre

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Oct 22, 2012

By WARREN CAHAYAG
Davao Today

They are demanding the military to account for such “act of barbarity”, saying that relieving the perpetrators is not enough but the pull-out of these troops “who have become attack dogs against lumads who are only defending their land from being turned into ugly mine sites.”

Two female students raped in Kabacan boarding house

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Oct 19, 2012

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. 

Family of anti-mining B’laan leader killed by military men

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Oct 18, 2012

By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today

Karapatan-Socsksargends, however, said Bravo was lying.  What happened, he said, was an attack by Philippine Army troops against hapless lumads who are opposed to the operation of foreign and large-scale mining SMI-Xstrata, in their ancestral land.