Students to hold “Enviro Camp” in Kapalong
By Mart D. Sambalud Davao Today KAPALONG, Davao del Norte—More than 200 students of private and public secondary schools here will join the YES-O summer festival dubbed as “Enviro Camp”…
RECEIVING ORDERS FROM MAYOR
Superintendent Rodelio Poliquit, acting Davao City Traffic Management Center chief receives instructions from Mayor Rody Duterte to conduct traffic patrol at night where more speed limit violations were reported. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
ISKO STAYING ALIVE. The student mascot Isko (colloquial for
Iskolar ng Bayan (Scholars of the Nation) shows a placard
lamenting the death of youth scholars in state universities
with the suicide of UP student Kristel Tejada due to
"commercialization of education." Students staged a picket in
front of the CHED regional office, Monday. (davaotoday.com
photo by Medel V. Hernani)
CHED orders 6 schools closed
Six Bukidnon State University (BSU) external campuses were ordered closed after they were found remiss of the basic requirement to operate an educational institution, a Commission on Higher Education Department official said on Tuesday.
Abducted, Blindfolded, Tortured, Molested
One day in November, two NGO workers were abducted by soldiers in a village in North Cotabato. They were forcibly brought to a military detachment where they were blindfolded, interrogated, tortured and sexually molested. The soldiers tried to force them to admit that they were communist guerillas.
2006: A Year of Horror for Southern Mindanao?s Women Activists
SUFFERING WOMEN. This political art, seen at the Davao offices of the women’s group Gabriela, depicts the abuses women, particularly their activist sisters, go through under a repressive regime. (davaotoday.com photo by Cheryll D. Fiel)
According to the human-rights group Karapatan, 15 women from Southern Mindanao alone were killed in the past five years due to their political involvements. Nationwide, 86 of the more than 700 victims of political killings from 2001 to August 2, 2006, were women.
By Cheryll D. Fiel
davaotoday.com
DAVAO CITY — A young village teacher killed in a strafing incident. An elderly woman hacked to death while sleeping in her home. Two volunteers of a nongovernment organization abducted and tortured by the military. Another NGO worker disappeared without a trace.
Several women in Southern Mindanao went through these, and more, in 2006. It was a year that, overall, saw the deterioration of the state of human rights and civil liberties in the Philippines.