Read more about the article Granted writ reunites Lumad father, daughter held under DSWD-7 custody
Human rights lawyers Attys. Fionah Bojos and Magdalena Daymeg Lepiten with the detained Lumad student and her father. (Photo courtesy of Integrated Bar of the Philippines Cebu City Chapter).

Granted writ reunites Lumad father, daughter held under DSWD-7 custody

One of the Lumad students held at a facility inside the Social Welfare and Development Office in Region 7 and her father were reunited late afternoon on March 12.

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Read more about the article Hopes up for Bangsamoro interim extension until 2025
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Hopes up for Bangsamoro interim extension until 2025

Hopes are high for Congress to approve the extension of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) until 2025 for it to have some leeway to respond to the exacerbating problems resulting from COVID-19 and establish institutions for self-governance in the Bangsamoro region.

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Read more about the article COVID-19 vaccine jabs start in Mindanao this week
A nurse administers the Coronavac shot to a soldier at the Phil. Army’s 4th Infantry Division headquarters in Barangay Patag, Cagayan de Oro on March 5, 2021. (Jigger J. Jerusalem/davaotoday.com)

COVID-19 vaccine jabs start in Mindanao this week

Vaccine jabs have begun in Mindanao with the arrival of the vaccines for COVID-19 on March 5 in different cities in the island.

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Who’s afraid of critical students?

But there can be no further wondering why government feels threatened by progressive education. State forces insist that they "rescued" Lumad students—they rescued them from further learning how government assists in the corporate plunder of their ancestral lands, from realizing the potential of their collective strength as our young heroes then realized their collective strength.

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