By DANILDA L. FUSILERO Davao Today “The IPRA law only served as a tool to legally plunder our ancestral lands. The law, in its present form, cannot provide the realization and attainment of our rights” -- Francesca Tolentino, secretary general of the Katribu Partylist
By John Rizle L.Saligumba Davao Today Madlos said that the NDFP calls on other legitimate Moro armed groups and the Moro people to strengthen their struggle in two fronts. “First, in the assertion of basic human and political rights, persist and broaden the Moro mass movement by the thousands; and second, strengthen and further intensify the Moro armed revolutionary resistance against our common enemy – the fascist state and its armed forces, and US military interventionist forces.”
By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today increases workers' susceptibility to sexually-transmitted diseases, including HIV by fuelling stigma and discrimination, limiting access to sexual health services, condoms and harm reduction services; and adversely affecting the self esteem of sex workers and their ability to make informed choices about their health.
By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today Bayan Muna Party-list Representative Teddy Casiño said the root cause of Mindanao’s power crisis is “the government’s neglect of the Agus-Pulangi hydropower systems due to the policy of privatization."
By DANILDA L. FUSILERO Davao Today Fr. Geremia, who personally knew Juvy Capion, questioned the apparent apathy of President Benigno Aquino III, who did nothing to stop the killings of lumads, saying, “If you order or allow the military to kill people like Juvy and her children, haven’t you lost your legitimacy? You may find words to justify your rules of engagement, but you cannot justify this crime before God and your people.”