Politics

No home for Lumad children

A total of 83 Lumad (indigenous) children are forced to leave their homes in Compostela and Monkayo towns as government troops continue their operations against the New People's Army. Often caught in the crossfire, sometimes subjected to military harassments and intimidation, more than 30 Lumad families leave their homes and end up in Davao City's Bankerohan gym on May 16, where they take refuge. The evacuees first stayed in Compostela gym, but were hounded by government troops there. Click here for more photos. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)

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Child rights group fear rise in children victimized by armed conflict and development aggression

The KABIBA Alliance for Children's Concerns is alarmed over the increasing number of children affected by armed conflict and development aggression in the countryside of southern Mindanao. According to KABIBA's…

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Alarm raised on flood, erosion in Davao areas

Interface Development Interventions, Inc. (Idis) executive director Lia Jasmin Esquillo says they are particularly worried for the residents of Barangay Carmen in Baguio District who have suffered from displacement and loss of property in the past after an onslaught of torrential rains that triggered flashfloods and landslides.

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The irony and tragedy that is General Esperon

Commentary | Esperon's appointment as peace adviser is so contemptible it insults the common sense. What credibility, for example, does the ?Hello, Garci? general have in talking about the substantive agenda in the peace process such as socio-political, economic, and electoral reforms?

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