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Davao rallyists slam ‘lies’ in Aquino’s SONA

Students marched through universities to protest state budget cuts and high cost of education. Workers held a rally in a strike camp to demand job security. Farmers held a picket at a military headquarters to decry militarization and abuses. The rallies culminated with a burning of Pres. Aquino’s effigy in a gathering at the city’s Rizal Park in the afternoon.

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Information posters on the dangers of human trafficking were unveiled at the NCCC Mall Activity Center as part of the the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking in Persons XI (IACAT XI)’s campaign to educate the public to be involved in the campaign. (davaotoday.com photo by John Rizle Saligumba)

Govt, advocates lament lack of info, systematic data on human trafficking

By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA Davao Today

Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said during the IACAT advocacy campaign launch, he would confront human trafficking with the same intensity as that of drug trafficking cases. “In my book, I have placed illegal recruiters on the level of drug traffickers. It has the same effect to society.”

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Read more about the article Wealth-sharing for whom?
HISTORICAL INJUSTICE. In this file photo, President Benigno Aquino III stands beside MILF Chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim during the Sajahatra Bangsamoro program at the MILF camp in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao province February 12. MCPA’s Amira Lidasan said that the GPH-MILF Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro “does not include the entire span of issues faced by the people” following the Sabah crisis in Malaysia. “The violence inflicted by the Malaysian forces on troops of the Sultanate in Sabah, being condoned by the President, strikes at the heart of the deep-seated “historical injustice” felt by the Moro people leveled on them,” Lidasan said. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)

Wealth-sharing for whom?

When Davao Today sought the reactions of some members of the academe, they praised the efforts of the peace panels, at the same time, raised serious concerns.

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