In a Lumad ritual called pamaas, blood from a slain chicken is smeared onto the palms of some 30 activists who will be immersing in the different Lumad communities of Mindanao. The ritual is said to be asking the spirits for the protection and safety of the delegates. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
A young child drinks from the cupped hand of an older playmate inside the UCCP Haran compound in Fr. Selga Street, Davao City. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Young Lumad children stage an interpretative dance to tell the story of their community in front of human rights activists from Europe, Asia, and Latin America in UCCP Haran, Davao City on Saturday, July 16. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Chief Isidro S. Lapeña said that alleged top drug lord Peter Lim’s surrender to President Rodrigo Duterte is a very good indication of the success of the new administration’s campaign against illegal drugs. While Lim denied the allegations and hopes to clear his name, Lapeña said that Lim has been in the agency’s rogues gallery before he assumed his position as director general. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
A billboard in front of the Sangguniang Pambansa in San Pedro Street, Davao City declares slain tribal chieftain Ruben Labawan a hero and a martyr. In a statement, the New People’s Army owned up to the killing, saying that Labawan was “guilty of blood debts and thereby meted with the death penalty for serious crimes against the people.” (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Datu Mentroso Malibato holds a plate containing the blood of a chicken that was earlier sacrificed in a ritual called the pamaas to ask for the safety of the delegates of the Salupongan: An International Humanitarian and Solidarity Mission. Some 30 activists from Europe, Latin America, USA, Hong Kong will be immersing with the different Lumad communities in Mindanao from July 16 to 21. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Students of the University of the Immaculate Conception (UIC), Davao City interacts with the Lumad students of the MISFI Academy students as they distribute school supplies at the United Church of Christ in the Philippines Haran compound in Father Selga Street on Saturday afternoon, July 16.
Human rights activists from US and Hongkong partake in a solidarity lunch with their Filipino counterparts and the indigenous peoples evacuees at the United Church of Christ in the Philippines Haran compound in Father Selga Street, Davao
City on Saturday noon, July 16. The foreign delegates are part of the International Solidarity Mission which will conduct a humanitarian relief and medical mission in different parts of Mindanao including Talaingod in Davao
del Norte and Arakan in North Cotabato. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
Anticipating more rains now that the country is in the La Niña season, Davao City Police Chief Michael John Dubria inspects the quality of a raincoat from a prospective supplier. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Fifty-six officials of the Davao City Police Office subject themselves to a drug test on Friday, July 15, 2016. All officials yield negative for illegal drugs. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
