Read more about the article STANDPOINT | Let us journey together in support of the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations
PEACE SIGN. Luis Jalandoni, chairperson of the National Democratic Front negotiating panel poses with church leaders during the 5th Ecumenical Church Leaders Summit on Peace organized by the Philippine Ecumenical Peace Platform at the Homitori Inn in Davao City on Wednesday, September 21. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)

STANDPOINT | Let us journey together in support of the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations

Statement of the Philippine Ecumenical Peace Platform for the 5th Ecumenical Church Leaders Summit on September 22, 2016 in Davao City, Philippines

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(Photo courtesy of National Union of People's Lawyer)

STANDPOINT | Spare the peddled, punish the peddlers

Simply put, the context is: Mary Jane is a victim of dire poverty, of lack of real opportunities for a decent job, of pernicious drug and human trafficking. The law may be the law but it should not be blind or deaf to reality.

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Read more about the article STANDPOINT | Take back our ancestral lands
Bai Bibyaon Ligkaw led some 600 Manobo Lumads in joining the One Billion Rising campaign against violence during the Valentines Day. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)

STANDPOINT | Take back our ancestral lands

Today is the 366th day of forcible evacuation of over 2,000 residents from 22 communities in 5 municipalities in Surigao del Sur.

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