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Karapatan denounces Arroyo order to speed up Cafgu recruitment, deployment

DAVAO CITY ? Human Rights group Karapatan-Southern Mindanao condemned in the highest possible terms today the recent order of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and Department of National Defense (DND) to speed up the recruitment, training, equipping and deployment of Civilian Armed Forces Geographical Units (CAFGUs) as this aims to replace transferred paramilitary troops in the hinterlands.
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Charismatic invites drawing enthusiasts, cash prizes awaits winners

DAVAO CITY — A poster-making competition is one of this year?s pre-anniversary competitions to drumbeat the upcoming 28th year celebration of the Archdiocesan Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement of Davao themed as the Healing Power of Jesus, October 21, 8am-8 pm at the Holy Cross of Davao College gym (former CYO gym).
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Environmentalists celebrate with Lumad in Tipolog

Environmentalists are yet again scaling up Mt. Tipolog, known as the country?s lost volcano found in Barangay Tawan-Tawan, Baguio District, as their way of celebrating the generosity of the mountain to the residents of the area especially to the lumad (indigenous peoples).

This is in time for the celebration of October as the Indigenous People?s Month.
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Karapatan Davao rebukes Arroyo’s ‘hypocritical’ speech at UN

DAVAO CITY ? Human rights group Karapatan- Southern Mindanao sharply rebuked President Gloria-Macapagal Arroyo’s speech delivered at the 62nd Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York last Friday. The president, in her address said that Philippines is the most democratic country in Asia-Pacific Region and did not even tolerate human rights violations in the country.
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Arroyo has no moral authority to denounce Myanmar atrocities — Bayan

DAVAO CITY — BAYAN in Southern Mindanao denounces the massive human rights
violations and killings of political activists in Myanmar, which
already claimed thirteen (13) lives and hundreds incarcerated. The
economic and political crisis in Myanmar, which triggered series of
protests tackling variety of issues from oil price increases and human
rights violations, is similar to what the Filipinos are experiencing
under the Arroyo administration.

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