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Actress and One Billion Rising Global Director Monique Wilson along with activist-performer Mae "Juana Change" Paner lead the dance during a local event for the global campaign to end violence against women and children on Thursday, February 13, at Brokenshire Resource Center in Davao City. Wilson and Paner expressed their solidarity to the Lumads displaced by militarization in Mindanao.

Flower vendors at the Bankerohan Public Market in Davao City are hoping to cash in on today's Valentine's day celebration. A bouquet's price ranges from P300 to P1,500 each. (Mara S. Genotiva/davaotoday.com)

Taking time out from their hectic job, bus drivers of the Yanson Group of Bus Companies (YGBC) subsidiaries from all over Mindanao compete in the RBY Memorial Cup 2019 basketball games held at the Rural Transit Mindanao Inc. headquarters in Barangay Camaman-an,Cagayan de Oro City, on Tuesday.

Officials of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) and Lumad leaders hang a tarpaulin at the gate of UCCP-Haran compound in Davao City Thursday (Jan. 30). Their message is clear: no arms should be brought or stored inside the church places and premises. Their action came following the Jan. 25 forcible entry of bolo-wielding members of the Alamara paramilitary group into the evacuation camp that holds hundreds of Lumad who evacuated due to militarization and other rights abuses. (Kath M. Cortez/davaotoday.com)

In a press conference last January 28, tribal leaders from Talaingod and Kapalong, Davao del Norte spoke in behalf of the hundreds more staying in the UCCP Haran Center in Davao City that they have chosen to stay amidst the clear and present threats to their lives by the presence of the members of the military and paramilitary which their local governments failed to address for years. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)