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CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Philippines — A group of Maranao peace advocates criticize the military’s aerial bombing in Lanao del Sur Monday and doubts their claims that the ISIS-Maute group are present in that area.
Military reports said they launched an aerial assault targeting armed insurgents in (...)
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 13 February) – Supporters of Presidential candidate Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and his running mate, Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte, rushed out of their UniTeam headquarters along Ponciano Reyes St. on Wednesday when the “Ronda ng Pag-asa” (Motorcade of Hope) of supporters of Leni (...)
A Davao-based women’s group that campaigned for Mayor Rodrigo Duterte when he ran for President, helped craft the Women Agenda for his platform of governance and continued to support him as President “despite his expletives, cussing and misogynistic remarks” in the last 19 months is now saying (...)
On November 22, 1984, in Zamboanga City, southern Philippines, close to 200,000 people paid final tribute to a fallen leader. Cesar Cortes Climaco, 68 years old, city mayor and elected member of the national legislature, was being laid to a final rest.
Along the 10-kilometer uphill route of (...)
Lawyer Juan Macababbad was a public interest lawyer. Two unidentified gunmen shot him in the head seven times.
Public interest lawyer Juan Macababbad was shot dead outside his home in Surallah town, South Cotabato, on Wednesday, September 15, the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) (...)
Together with fellow researchers from Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology (Iligan City, The Philippines), we initiated research in February 2020 about the situation and mental health of youth who were evacuated from Marawi during the 2017 siege. At that time, the COVID-19 (...)
Some call it a baby step toward accountability, but the silence among governors and mayors is ‘quite telling’
Human rights activists, lawyers, religious leaders, and academics in Mindanao lauded the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for moving to start an (...)
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In recent weeks, Palestinians in Jerusalem have mobilized and stood to defend their basic rights – for the (...)
It has been almost three years since the passage of the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL), a manifestation of the mutual desire of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to forge lasting and inclusive peace.
Recently, several bills have (...)
Discussion: Delays in the decommissioning of Moro rebels and other measures threaten the fragile peace in the newly created Bangsamoro Autonomous Region.
Two years into the creation of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), the peace process that put an end to decades of (...)
Davao Region and Davao City are set to receive billions from the NTF-ELCAC’s anti-communist funds
The National Task Force to End Local Communist Insurgency (NTF-ELCAC) is not just about Antonio Parlade Jr. It’s also about money. Billions of pesos.
Administratively, its biggest project is the (...)
Place matters, but scale decides.
—Erik Swyngedouw
At no time in Philippine cinema history has there ever been more active filmmakers nationwide than today. And at no other time have myriad spaces throughout the archipelago been so richly represented onscreen. Thus, there is a need to develop (...)
On the eve of New Year’s Day 2016, communist guerrillas in Agusan del Sur released Army Cpl. Adriano Bingil, whom they had held captive for 102 days, to then Davao City mayor and presidential aspirant Rodrigo Duterte.
Right there, Mr. Duterte vowed to prioritize the search for peace and work (...)
Failure to aid rehabilitation effort has set Mindanao back decades
Six months after the end of the 2017 battle of Marawi in the southern Philippines, residents were allowed into ground zero for just a few hours to retrieve whatever they could of their possessions destroyed in the five months (...)
These were the sentiments of human rights workers who were recently issued with arrest warrants based solely on shady testimonies.
Karapatan’s national chairperson Elisa Lubi and Karapatan-Southern Mindanao Region secretary general Jayvee “Jay” Apiag were slapped with attempted murder charges by (...)
Between January 1 2016 and June 31 2020, my Political Violence in the Southern Philippines Dataset recorded 1,979 incidents of political violence that resulted in 5,928 total casualties among all categories of actors. This dataset excludes the 2017 siege of Marawi City. According to the data, (...)
Mindanao cinema has grown exponentially in the last decade with its many filmmakers from producing films that made mark in the independent filmmaking scene, reaped accolades both in the country and abroad, and contributed to the deepening of the discourse on regional cinema in the Philippines. (...)
DAVAO CITY (Mindanews / 13 June) The controversial anti-terrorism bill puts lawyers, especially human rights lawyers, at the limelight. People from all walks of life enthusiastically poured their opinions and emotions through the mainstream or social media. Understandably, the public attention (...)
Three years after militants laid waste to Marawi City ISIS operatives are using the virus crisis to recruit new fighters.
MINDANAO – Three years after Islamic State-aligned militants seized the southern Philippine city of Marawi, triggering a bloody five-month urban siege, violent extremism (...)
As Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte prepares to deliver his annual “State of the Nation” address on Monday, a group of residents from Marawi are planning a counter-event to hand down their verdict on what they say is the government’s failure to rebuild a city that was devastated in a siege (...)
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