According to this report by MindaNews’ Carolyn O. Arguillas, detained Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) chair Nur Misuari, was not able to leave for Jeddah to attend the Tripartite Meeting of the MNLF, the government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Organization of Islamic Conference.
“Misuari was supposed to have left with his [...]
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Posted in Access to Information, Elections 2007, Elections in Mindanao, Freedom, Governance, Human Rights, Justice, Local Governance, Mindanao, Mindanao Media, Safety, Security on November 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Compostela Valley board member Neri Barte is now facing charges of serious physical injuries, grave coercion, grave threats, serious misconduct and grave abuse of authority for allegedly attacking a Radyo Natin broadcaster right inside the announcer’s booth as the latter was on air.
Natin broadcaster Roel Sembrano filed the complaint before the Office of the Ombudsman [...]
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Posted in Davao, Education, Food/Health Related, Governance, Health, Jobs in Mindanao, Justice, Local Governance, Mindanao, Social Security on November 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A mixture of her difficulty in coping with poverty, emotional problems, and her youthful innocence killed the 12-year-old grade schooler, a social worker said.
Grade 6 pupil Marianeth Amper, who committed suicide in the afternoon of All Souls’ Day in a room of their house in the sloping hills in Maa, has caught the national limelight [...]
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Posted in Bukidnon, Crime, Davao, Freedom, Governance, Human Rights, Human Rights in Mindanao, Justice, Mindanao, People Power, Philippines, Politics, Safety, Security on November 8, 2007 | No Comments »
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Hermogenes Esperon and Philippine National Police chief Avelino Razon and three other military officials are respondents in the first petition for writ of amparo in Mindanao.
The petition was filed by Bebelita Bustamante of Paquibato district, whose only son, 21-year old Luicito, disappeared on October 27.
The [...]
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Posted in Crime, Davao, Freedom, Governance, Human Rights, Justice, Malaybalay City, Mindanao, People Power, Philippines, Politics on November 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Any time, any day.
Chief Justice Reynato Puno wants the public to know that any time or any day, relatives of missing persons can petition the judge for a writ of amparo, a measure intended to protect the missing person from becoming a victim of extrajudicial killings or a desaparecido (disappeared or victim of enforced disappearance).
The writ is [...]
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Posted in Davao, Governance, Human Rights, Human Rights in Mindanao, Indifgenous Peoples, Justice, Mindanao, Mindanao's communities, Philippines, Politics, Religious on October 17, 2007 | No Comments »
The City Council unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday urging the creation of at least a Shari’ah circuit and district court court here. The resolution was sponsored by Councilor Amilbangsa Manding, President of the Association of Barangay Councils, to help free the regular courts of cases involving Muslims.
Estimated at around 150,000, Muslims here constitute 10% of [...]
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It is an inspiring thing to do and probably one that could become a worthy study of the usefulness of blogs.
BBC reported on how Burma cyber-dissidents crack censorship to report on the protests and definance of saffron-robed monks in the military ruled country.
I’m sure some of them are inside Burma right now, but [...]
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No other country in South East Asia interests me more than Burma. My interest is keener now with what is unfolding.
We have learned of tens of thousands of monks’ recent peaceful street protests challenging the decades old rule of the military junta. The internet brought us images and stories about the events.
Many see the development [...]
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Posted in Agriculture, Bukidnon, Davao, Economy, Environment, Food in Mindanao, Food/Health Related, Governance, Health, Investments in Mindanao, Jobs in Mindanao, Justice, Local Governance, Mindanao, Mindanao Sports, Mindanao's communities, News, Safety on September 24, 2007 | No Comments »
The verdict is out: the court has upheld as valid and constitutional the city ordinance banning aerial spraying in plantations. In a decision dated September 22, Judge Renato Fuentes of Regional Trial Court Branch-17 junked the petition of the Pilipino Banana Growers and Exporters Association (PBGEA) questioning the constitutionality of the ordinance, the [...]
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Posted in Blogging and Mindanao, Bukidnon, Governance, Human Rights in Mindanao, Justice, Mindanao, Mindanao's communities, Monologues, Peace Process, Philippines on August 12, 2007 | 9 Comments »
One of my more serious agenda at the Mindanao Bloggers Summit in October (aside from partying, listening to the A-listers, and meeting new friends) is to help spread out blogging vocabulary and technology for the grassroots level.
I intend to share an idea about how blogging can be a useful tool for communities to megaphone their [...]
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DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/9 Aug) – Child advocates and human rights groups commissioned the exhumation of the remains of Grecil Buya on August 8, four months after the nine-year-old girl from New Bataan in Compostela Valley was killed in an encounter between the New People’s Army and the military.
Dr. Raquel Del Rosario-Fortun, a forensics expert from [...]
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Posted in Crime, Governance, Human Rights, Justice, Mindanao, Peace Process, People Power, Philippines, Politics, Religious, Safety, Security on August 6, 2007 | No Comments »
Fr. Giancarlo Bossi won’t be reassigned to Mindanao, at least not yet, the head of his missionary group said in a report posted Sunday at the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines website.
Fr. Gian Battista Zanchi, superior general of the Pontifical Foreign Missions (PIME) said Bossi won’t be assigned to Mindanao even if the Italian [...]
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