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 JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
“This will refute the statement of General Bautista of the Armed Forces of the Philippines that Palparan is the last of his kind. In fact many Palparans exists and they have not been prosecuted” — Bayan Muna Representative Neri Colmenares
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
Bayan Intise, spokesperson of Pagkakaisa ng mga Biktima para sa Hustisya in Southern Mindanao, an organization of families of victims of political killings and other human rights violations, said both Alcover and Bello “do not have the right to become part of the investigating body since they themselves are instigators of such atrocities.”
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
“We demand that they admit to the crime; they should be punished for the loss of lives of the innocent civilians in the massacre”– Pastor Sadrach Sabella, secretary-general of Karapatan-Socsksargends
By DANILDA L. FUSILERO
Davao Today
Indigenous peoples’ activists cited 27 cases of extra-judicial killing have occurred under the present administration.
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 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.
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.”
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.
