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In a press conference early today at Tacloban city hall to mark one year of typhoon Yolanda, Mayor Alfredo Romualdez told news reporters that they have learned not to expect from the national government for help.  Assistance came only five months after Yolanda hit Eastern Visayas on November 8. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)

A woman visiting the Davao City "Wireless" Public Cemetery is attended to by medics as she passed out because of intense heat. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)

Alleged New People's Army guerrilla Vanessa Delos Reyes hopes that all the charges levelled against her by the government military would be dismissed for humanitarian reasons due to her disability. She is photographed during the first hearing of her arraignment at the Hall of Justice in Davao City. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com

A tribal mother and child join the rally in front of the Commission of Human Rights Region XI demanding the removal of encampment of the Army's 66th Infantry Battalion (IB) in their community. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)