Police bats for ‘diskarte,’ merry go round chase vs. kids in conflict with law

By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today For Davao police chief Dela Rosa, “diskarte na lang.”  Loosely translated, this means that officers design creative ways to deal with the different situations especially if they involve minors and children.

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Women’s rights advocates question PHL’s gender equality performance

By DANILDA L. FUSILERO Davao Today Retired professor Vilma Gonzales of the local Network of Women raised her doubts over the country’s international ranking in gender relations as “sexual abuses, rape, among others still abound with most perpetrators go unpunished.” 

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Congress hearing will reveal more Palparans — Solon

By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA Davao Today “This will refute the statement of General Bautista of the Armed Forces of the Philippines that Palparan is the last of his kind.  In fact many Palparans exists and they have not been prosecuted” -- Bayan Muna Representative Neri Colmenares

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Davao militants protest Alcover’s presence in House Inquiry on HRVs, slam Akbayan’s Bello for red-baiting

By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today Bayan Intise, spokesperson of Pagkakaisa ng mga Biktima para sa Hustisya in Southern Mindanao, an organization of families of victims of political killings and other human rights violations, said both Alcover and Bello “do not have the right to become part of the investigating body since they themselves are instigators of such atrocities.”

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Military unit tagged in Tampakan massacre replaced; rights groups wary

By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today “We demand that they admit to the crime; they should be punished for the loss of lives of the innocent civilians in the massacre”-- Pastor Sadrach Sabella, secretary-general of Karapatan-Socsksargends

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