Facebook page Diego Pagbabago posted several graphics using the logos of Kabataan and Gabriela Women’s Party in favor of the reinstatement of mandatory Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) for students.
Women’s group Gabriela urged authorities to conduct a thorough and impartial investigation on the murder of model Yvonne Plaza Chua as a military officer is dangled in this issue.
The passage in Congress of a bill making military training for college students mandatory earned opposition not just from a youth party-list, but also from college students in this region.
As we start 2023, we take a look back at Davao Today’s coverage of significant issues in Mindanao in 2022
Nasino and her two other companions claimed the cases filed against them were trumped up and part of the massive crackdown on activists.
A Twitter account maliciously published the idea that ABS-CBN justice and impunity beat reporter Mike Navallo is either a supporter of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army-National Democratic Front of the Philippines (CPP-NPA-NDFP) or the latter’s “urban operative” embedded in the media.
Progressive groups lambasted the “worsening” human rights violations in the country under the administration of Pres. Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos, Jr. and Vice Pres. Sara Duterte.
Controversial Davao-based Pastor Apollo Quiboloy has claimed that the ecumenical youth group Student Christian Movement of the Philippines (SCMP) was created and operated by the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).
Facebook page Kalumuran Mindanao posted anew a graphic accusing PJ Dizon, secretary-general of labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno (May First Movement) in Davao Region as a “recruiter” of the New People’s Army (NPA).
National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) chairperson Jonathan de Santos said the country is “partly free” when it comes to publishing stories and covering certain issues, but undeniably, “there is a fear of reprisal, and there actually have been cases of reprisals.”
