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The education department says 2,557 students in General Santos City suffered severe headaches, while 291 others experienced nosebleeds, attributed to the rising temperatures

The Union of Peoples' Lawyers in Mindanao also issues a statement to condemn the bomb attack and at the same time, call for vigilance against any effort to seek repressive state responses

'Let us be vigilant but not vigilantes,' says the Council for Climate and Conflict Action Asia

AFP Chief Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr. says there similarities in the two explosions, but investigators could not yet say if the perpetrators of the Jolo attacks were from the same group responsible for the Marawi blast

In Marawi, displaced residents feel ‘excluded’ from gov’t rehabilitation   ‘We should not just focus on facilities, but also on the people, their livelihood, and their situation,’ says Saripada Tong Pasacum Jr. of Marawi-based Early Response Network. BY KENNETH ROLAND GUDA June 29, 2021 | 07:00:00 AM   Marawi City community leaders asked the government to provide basic services to di...

Normalisation process fails to normalise Mindanao in the Philippines Four civilians were killed, two of them women, after getting caught in the crossfire of the war between the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters-Karialan Group (BIFF) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Wednesay 28 April in the southern Philippines. These deaths are only the latest in a long string of fatalities beginning in mid-February to early March 2021, when multiple armed clashes erupted in the towns of Datu...

Leveraging technologies for peace and human rights Mobile phones are now being used as tools in peacebuilding. Copyright: Image by Dean Moriarty from Pixabay. This image has been cropped. Speed read Developing countries lack funds and access, especially in conflict areas Data, ICT access can build community power as well as state power Share this article: Republish We encourage you to republish this article online and in print, it’s free under our creative commons attribution license, but p...