Martial Law in Mindanao

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Maranao leaders urge government to extend financial assistance to business owners in Marawi ?City so they can recover from their losses due to the fighting there between state forces and armed extremists. In the photo are Sultan Nasser Sampaco (left), chairman of the Marawi Sultanate League, and Sultan Ysmael Ali, the sultan of Balo-i, Lanao del Norte, and member of the Sixteen Royal Sultanate of Lanao. (Jigger J. Jerusalem/davaotoday.com)

Mindanao lawmakers support Marawi rehab budget

Some Mindanao lawmakers have expressed their support for the rehabilitation of the besieged Marawi City through allocation of funds as the Lower House has started deliberating the budget for next year.

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Read more about the article FULL TEXT | Second National Interfaith Humanitarian Mission Report on Human Rights situation of Marawi evacuees

FULL TEXT | Second National Interfaith Humanitarian Mission Report on Human Rights situation of Marawi evacuees

The two National Interfaith Humanitarian Missions, especially the recently-concluded second wave, were able to open venues for the victims’ demands. These were venues that even the poorest, and in social heirarchies normally voiceless, evacuees were able to access. This allowed the fleshing out cases of human rights violations under Martial Law beyond the common narrative of the effects of the aerial bombings.

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Read more about the article Marawi evacuees to take part in constructing transition houses
Displaced residents who are housed in evacuation centers are commissioned by the Task Force Bangon Marawi in constructing temporary shelters in Barangay Sagongsongan, Marawi City through a cash-for-work program. (Divina M. Suson/davaotoday.com)

Marawi evacuees to take part in constructing transition houses

Internally displaced residents will be given role in constructing the transition houses here, an official said over the weekend.

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MEDICAL PERSONNEL. Army Capt. Jo-ann Petinglay, talks to doctors and nurses of Amai Pakpak Medical Center in Marawi City on Tuesday, Aug 1. The hospital workers are divided into five groups and will go on duty for three-day shifting to attend to patients, mostly evacuees, who are confined in the hospital as the ongoing military operations against the Daesh-inspired Maute group enters in its third month Tuesday, Aug. 1. (Divina M. Suson/davaotoday.com)

MEDICAL PERSONNEL

Army Capt. Jo-ann Petinglay, talks to doctors and nurses of Amai Pakpak Medical Center in Marawi City on Tuesday, Aug 1. The hospital workers are divided into five groups and will go on duty for three-day shifting to attend to patients, mostly evacuees, who are confined in the hospital as the ongoing military operations against the Daesh-inspired Maute group enters in its third month Tuesday, Aug. 1. (Divina M. Suson/davaotoday.com)

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AT PLAY. Children spend time playing in a covered court turned evacuation center in the town of Saguiaran, Lanao del Sur on Friday, July 28, 2017. They are the children of the 370 families staying inside the evacuation center for more than two months now. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)

AT PLAY

Children spend time playing in a covered court turned evacuation center in the town of Saguiaran, Lanao del Sur on Friday, July 28, 2017. They are the children of the 370 families staying inside the evacuation center for more than two months now. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)

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