By GRACE S. UDDIN | Davao Today
Militant groups were dismayed over President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s move to strengthen her political party amidst the growing demands for more affordable food, lower prices of oil from the people.
By MARILOU M. AGUIRRE-TUBURAN | Davao Today
Retired Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff General Hermogenes Esperon Jr. said he sees no conflict at all in his being a former military officer and his recent post as a peace adviser.
By GERMELINA A. LACORTE | Davao Today
Arroyo said she has ordered an all out military offensive not only against the Abu Sayyaf, but also against the Communist New People’s Army (NPA) so that the government can finally “return Mindanao to its people,” she said.
Major Medel Aguilar has proven all the more how ignorant he is about the rights of indigenous peoples. His statements…
(A Statement on the Disarming of Another Phil. Army Detachment) The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is at it…
By CJ KUIZON | Davao Today
Somewhere in Bankerohan, in a compound still shady with trees, three-week-old Vermon Autan sleeps soundly on a mat in the bottom bunk of the dormitory-type room that he shares with his parents and four other siblings. The place is not his home.
Concerned organizations and individuals form an alliance called Exodus for Justice and Peace to call for a stop of the militarization in the countryside and for the return of hundreds of Lumads displaced from their communities. The alliance also seeks justice for the death of tribal chieftain Dominador Diarog, peasant leader Celso Pojas and other victims of human rights violations. Photo shows Exodus’s members signing a statement of unity calling attention to the daily needs of victims, including health and medical services, psychosocial therapy sessions for women and children, legal services, moral support, among others. (davaotoday.com photo by Jonald Mahinay)
By GERMELINA A. LACORTE | Davao Today
The jailed broadcaster has already secured a May 26 court order for his provisional release after he posted bail for another libel case filed against him by TV personality Jeanette Lomanta-Leuterio.
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is shocked by the brutal murder of a television and radio correspondent in Jaffna…
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) requests that courts in the Philippines, particularly the Court of Appeals, seek to ensure…
