By Rep. Luz C. Ilagan Gabriela Women’s Party Privileged speech, December 11, 2007 Mr. Speaker, I rise today on a…
Davao City City councilor and Council for the Welfare of Children Davao City chairperson Atty. Angela Librado-Trinidad urged here…
Activists in Davao City stage protests during the nationwide transport strike December 13 to protest the skyrocketing oil price in the country. At least 30 buses were hired by the Davao City government to augment public transportation during the strike. (Photo by Keith Bacongco/AKP Images)
On December 10, the world will commemorate the 59th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) amidst the…
By GERMELINA A. LACORTE | Davao Today
Poor sanitation, lack of water supply, malnutrition, poor resistance to diseases and heavy congestion continue to threaten the health of evacuees in Surigao del Sur. “They experience not only human rights violations,” a human-rights advocate said. “Their basic right to health services are also not being answered by government.”
If media persons in Manila are raising a howl for being detained for hours without committing a crime, imagine how hard it would be for one to be sentenced to about six years in prison just because one could not afford a lawyer.
By CHERYLL D. FIEL | Davao Today
For the militants in Davao City, if there is one thing to learn from the botched coup at the Manila Peninsula Hotel led by Lt. Senior grade Antonio Trillanes IV and Brigadier General Danilo Lim, it should be this: “Banking on spontaneity is not enough.”
By GRACE S. UDDIN | Davao Today
Jolito Divinagracia and Ranel Enoc are among the farmers in Tamugan, Calinan district, whose parents are beneficiaries of the government’s Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). But almost 20 years into the program, both their families are still having a hard time acquiring the land supposedly awarded to them.
By CHERYLL D. FIEL | Davao Today
At the height of the stand-off at the Manila Peninsula Hotel, Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said President Arroyo called him. “She asked me how we are doing here and if she still has my support, Duterte saida. I said, Yes, ma’am.”
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Statement of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility on the Arrest of Members of the Media Covering the Peninsula…
