By DANILDA L. FUSILERO
Davao Today
Retired professor Vilma Gonzales of the local Network of Women raised her doubts over the country’s international ranking in gender relations as “sexual abuses, rape, among others still abound with most perpetrators go unpunished.”
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
For lawyer Carlos Zarate, Bayan Muna Party’s second nominee, Obama’s win “only means a continuation and perpetuation of the same policies that for decades spawned a continuing state of impunity in poor countries” like the Philippines.
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
“This will refute the statement of General Bautista of the Armed Forces of the Philippines that Palparan is the last of his kind. In fact many Palparans exists and they have not been prosecuted” — Bayan Muna Representative Neri Colmenares
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
Bayan Intise, spokesperson of Pagkakaisa ng mga Biktima para sa Hustisya in Southern Mindanao, an organization of families of victims of political killings and other human rights violations, said both Alcover and Bello “do not have the right to become part of the investigating body since they themselves are instigators of such atrocities.”
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
NPA’s Ka Parago said the fatalities were “armed combatants of the 69th IB Special Operations Team, not defenseless functionaries or civilians falsely depicted by the AFP,” pointing out that the same Army unit is responsible for the recent summary execution of a hemp farmer, Mires Esdang, in Malabog village, Paquibato District last October 18.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
Adam Shaw, a mission intern who hailed from Brunswick, Ohio said that no matter who gets elected, “the policy of the US government in Southeast Asia is going to be the same” adding that US presence here continues because of the country’s huge natural resources.
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
“We demand that they admit to the crime; they should be punished for the loss of lives of the innocent civilians in the massacre”– Pastor Sadrach Sabella, secretary-general of Karapatan-Socsksargends
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
While there have been recent developments on the side of the GPH in response to a proposal submitted by the NDFP, Olalia, however, said he’s not at liberty to say what is its current status. He revealed though that the Aquino administration has sent emissaries to meet the negotiators in The Netherlands sometime last month.
By DANILDA L. FUSILERO
Davao Today
Indigenous peoples’ activists cited 27 cases of extra-judicial killing have occurred under the present administration.
By PAUL RANDY P. GUMANAO
Davao Today
The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) defines ‘corporal’ or ‘physical’ punishment as any punishment that makes use of physical force to cause pain or discomfort. Unicef goes on to say that corporal punishment usually involves hitting, for example, slapping or spanking children with the hand or with an implement. The CRC views corporal punishment as invariably degrading.
