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 ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
The Philippine Senate ratified on Tuesday a bicameral report on The Anti-Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance Act of 2012. If enacted, it would make the Philippines the first country in Asia to criminalize enforced disappearances.
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.
By DANILDA L. FUSILERO
Davao Today
“After a year, justice still eludes for Fr. Pops. His murder is emblematic of the continuing state of impunity under the PNoy administration” — Atty. Carlos Isagani Zarate, Second Nominee, Bayan Muna
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
“He’s a martyr because he lived a selfless life,” said United Church of Christ in the Philippines Bishop Modesto Villasanta. He described Fr. Pops through Tagalog song’s lyrics: “walang sinuman ang nabubuhay para sa sarili lamang; walang sinuman ang namamatay para sa sarili lamang.”
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
“Usually, because of the nature of our work, we are assigned outside the place where we were registered. This is the reason why a lot of media workers cannot vote,” Jessie Casalda, the chairperson of NUJP-Davao, noted.
By DANILDA L. FUSILERO
Davao Today
Leah Emily Minoza, executive director of the Davao City-based Women’s Studies and Resource Center (WSRC) said Gender and Development (GAD) budget, which is supposed to be five percent of a local government unit’s allocation is even hardly implemented. Worse, it is mostly being used for purposes other than for gender programs.
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
Samera Amerkhan, a resident of Barangay North San Juan in Davao City’s Agdao District believes that they have a right to remain in their lot as they still have a pending case in the Court of Appeals. “Our lawyers asked (them) that we all wait for it.”
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
In a video presented during the briefing, the day-care teacher Mutya Acosta said the children are in constant fear due to the presence of the army in the barangay hall. She added that some children do not like to attend classes because they can see uniformed men with high-powered firearms roaming around.
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
Oscar Manila said, he did not deserve such punishment for fighting for what is right, recalling that youth activists like him during Marcos’ time only demanded change in the way government was run.
