Personnel from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), led by head of Mindanao operations Peter Deck, visit Lumad evacuees in a church compound in Davao City. (John Rizle Saligumba/davaotoday.com)
First district councilor Mabel Sunga-Acosta poses with the five topnotchers of the Social Work board examination during their visit to the Sangguniang Panglungsod regular session Tuesday. 1,817 passed out of 2,654 examinees. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Kadayawan Executive Committee spokesperson Councilor Al Ryan Alejandre and Joseph Lawrence Garcia, assistant information officer of the City Information Office, present the latest identification cards for hobbyist photographers and bloggers, which are numbered to correspond to three designated areas.(Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Lita Ondag, an Ata-Manobo leader of Sitio Nalubas, Barangay Palma Gil in Talaingod Davao del Norte, joins the march and rally in Davao City Monday in observance of the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples Day on August 9. The Lumads are calling for the protection of their yutang kabilin (ancestral lands) and environment from corporate plunder. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
After an international probe mission, Filipino-American youth, along with youth activists from various regions in Mindanao, play Filipino sports at the Magsaysay Park in Davao City. The ISM is a week-long event where international delegates visit tribal communities in Mindanao and take up issues of environmental plunder and militarization in the countryside. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)