BY DANILDA L. FUSILERO Davao Today “Historically, laws were used to displace us, that is why we also need to go into mainstream politics for us to be able to advance our rights,” says Katribu partylist first nominee Beverly Longid
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 ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today Representative Tinio of Act-Teachers said he voted no to the appropriations because it “continues the decades’ long trend of prioritizing debt servicing over education, health and sanitation and other social services.”
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