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Lumad students hold a protest action outside the office of the Department of Education Region 11 on Monday, July 3 to make the public aware of their grievances on the attacks by paramilitary. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)

Lumad teachers file complaints vs military at CHR

Lumad educators, students, and parents formally filed charges against the military whom they accuse of attacking their schools at the Commission on Human Rights Region 11 on Thursday.

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Read more about the article Kin, colleague of rights victims lodge complaints in CHR 11
A man stands before the Commission on Human Rights office in Davao City, calling the agency to probe into killings of slain and detained farmers from Compostela Valley. (File photo / davaotoda.com)

Kin, colleague of rights victims lodge complaints in CHR 11

Relatives of slain and detained farmers from Compostela Valle trooped to the Commission of Human Rights Region 11 Office here to file formal complaints against the military for alleged human rights violations.

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Read more about the article Army denies hand in shooting of farmers’ family in Compostela Valley
Army spokesman Capt. Rhyan Batchar of the 10th Infantry Division says that they will be discussing the plan to prepare military camps as rehabilitation centers for drug dependents with their law enforcement counterparts.(Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)

Army denies hand in shooting of farmers’ family in Compostela Valley

The Army denied the human rights group's report that government troops were involved in the shooting incident of a farmer's family in Mabini town Compostela Valley Province last Thursday.

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Read more about the article Dying for the Earth: PHL still among deadliest countries for environment activists
An emotional Christina Lantaw holds a picture of slain farmer and anti-mining advocate Jimmy Saypan during Monday’s protest rally led by national minority alliance group Sandugo in front of the Department of Justice office in Padre Faura Street, Manila. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)

Dying for the Earth: PHL still among deadliest countries for environment activists

The brutal slaying of 28 land and environmental defenders in 2016 underscores the risk of environmental activism in the Philippines, placing the country again in the global spotlight as one of the deadliest countries in Asia and the world for environment activists.

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