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Award-winning writer Don Pagusara joins the candle lighting ceremony conducted by the students of Ateneo de Davao University to condemn the hero's burial of former President Ferdinand Marcos on Monday, November 21 in front of Ateneo de Davao University in Roxas Avenue. Pagusara was among the thousands of activists who were abducted, tortured, and jailed during the Martial Law.(Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)

Overseas Workers' Welfare Agency XI Regional Director Eduardo Bellido says he is planning to craft a policy that will prevent mothers from leaving their young children in the hands of guardians in order to work abroad. Bellido's comments came after a toddler from Calinan district in Davao City died due to beating by his guardians last week. (By Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)

Temogen Tulawie, a Sulu-based human rights activist files a complaint against Sulu Vice Gov. Abdusakur Tan, Senator Leila de Lima, and lawyers Wendell F. Sotto, and Mehol K. Sandain, former chairperson of the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos for allegedly financing terrorist group Abu Sayyaf at the Office of the Ombudsman for Mindanao Friday, Nov. 18. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)

The Alliance of Community Educators, a group of Lumad educators in Southern Mindanao, urges President Rodrigo Duterte to check the case of Dominiciano Muya and Amelia Pond who were accused of being members of the New People's Army. The group calls for their immediate and unconditional release. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)