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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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Meet Wao’s ‘stewards of the land’

GENERAL SANTOS CITY — Dina Gracia feels blessed.

With her husband, this 28-year-old mother of two from the town of Wao, Lanao del Sur, has planted 400 rubber tree seedlings on land they now have a legal right to farm ? and every motivation to protect it from abuse.
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Muslims in Davao City start their observation of the fasting month of Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, today. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)

In Mindanao, war shatters the Ramadan

The military continued attacking Muslim communities even during the Ramadan, according to human-rights and Moro groups. "When entire communities get displaced by war, how are you going to celebrate Ramadan?" one of them asked. "Ramadan completely loses its meaning. Foremost in your mind, when you're in an evacuation center, is how to survive, where to look for food, or to keep yourself from being harassed, or get hit by a bomb."

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