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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 (...)
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 (...)
The Lumad community in the Philippines is speaking out against ‘Cha-Cha’—Duterte’s proposed constitutional changes that would transfer power to the local level and lift restrictions on foreign investment. Mindanao’s indigenous community says this will leave them vulnerable to the increasing presence (...)
Civic leaders and residents demand transparency from President Duterte over the rehabilitation of southern city.
Marawi City, Philippines - It has been one year since an armed group inspired by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) launched a deadly five-month siege in the southern (...)
A continuing displacement crisis and growing discontent with martial law risk creating yet another conflict.
The surprisingly protracted and intense urban war that erupted between government forces and Islamist rebels in the southern Philippines in May 2017 has created a displacement crisis in (...)
NO TO MARTIAL LAW! PROTECT OUR HUMAN RIGHTS AND COLLECTIVE RIGHTS OF PEOPLES!
“Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free” - 14th Dalai Lama. On December 11, 2017, the President requested Congress to extend Martial (...)
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