Human Rights

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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Commemorating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights amid massive human-rights violaitons

On December 10, the world will commemorate the 59th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) amidst the escalating human rights abuses perpetrated by the US-Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo regime…

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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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Heed the Lumads’ call for peace, stop militarization in Surigao — Pasaka

PASAKA, a regional formation membering 25 lumad organizations in Southern Mindanao and North Cotobato condemned the military operations in the hinterland villages of Surigao Del Sur which led to the…

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