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Department of Social Welfare and Development Secretary Judy Taguiwalo delivers her keynote speech at the 18th Women Summit held in Davao City Friday, March 3, 2017. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)

As killings of farmers continue, DSWD’s Taguiwalo calls for resumption of talks

Department of Social Welfare and Development Secretary Judy Taguiwalo expressed concern Friday over the spate of killings targeting farmers.

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7,000 deaths and counting: HRW says Duterte liable for rights ‘calamity’ in PHL

An international human rights organization said that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte could be held liable for “crimes against humanity” as his bloody war on drugs claimed more than 7,000 deaths.

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NPA prisoners’ parents, wife plead to Duterte: Help us bring them back

??A wife who is pregnant with their first born, and parents who are searching for their son for already a month appealed to President Rodrigo Duterte to help ??them be reunited with their loved ones.??

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Pleading for mercy: Solons file House reso as calls mount to spare OFW on death row

Gabriela Women’s partylist Rep. Emmi De Jesus and Arlene Brosas filed House Resolution 829 on Wednesday, urging President Rodrigo Duterte to seek executive clemency ?from the ?United Arab Emirates government ?for an overseas Filipino worker from General Santos City who is facing an execution.

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