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SunStar February 17, 2021 (UPDATED, with latest details) Various groups under Save Our Schools (SOS) Network Cebu are calling for the immediate release of 26 Lumads or indigenous people (IP) from Davao del Norte who they claim were “illegally seized” by police authorities in an SVD-owned retreat house at the University of San Carlos-Talamban campus (USC-TC) on Monday, Feb. 15, 2021. The SOS Network Cebu, composed of church-based groups, academic institutions, militant organizations,...

Lawyers’ group denounces arrest of Lumads, raid on retreat house

The Philippine National Police (PNP) accused on Monday, Feb, 15, some groups of twisting the story behind what it called as a rescue operation of 21 members of an indigenous group inside the retreat house of the University of San Carlos (USC) in Cebu City.

SunStar PRO 7 ‘rescues’ 19 indigenous minors from Cebu retreat house RESCUED FROM RETREAT HOUSE. Jomar Binag, 21, of Poblacion, Compostela Valley, Davao de Oro, is arrested by members of the Police Regional Office 7 Monday, Feb. 15, 2021 for his role in the alleged kidnapping and trafficking of 19 minors whom police rescued in an operation at the retreat house of the University of San Carlos-Talamban Campus in Cebu City. Six other people were arrested in the Mond...

Police 'rescue' 19 minor lumads

19 Lumad children rescued from alleged kidnapping by militant group — PNP enablePagination: false (FILE PHOTO) Cebu (CNN Philippines, February 15) — Police have arrested seven people in an operation in a top Cebu school on Monday, where they said 19 Lumad children from Davao del Norte were rescued from alleged kidnapping by a militant group. According to authorities, parents claimed their children were taken by members of the Salugpungan Ta Tanu Igkanogon without their consent and were tol...

Government should increase the capacity of the police to investigate these cases and prosecute alleged traffickers

Awareness Week should prompt govt on heightened crackdown vs. online child sexual abuse - Gatchalian Amidst the observance of the National Awareness Week for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation every second week of February every year, Senator Win Gatchalian called on the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) and the Inter-Agency Council Against Child Pornography (IACACP) to sustain and boost efforts to curb online sexual exploitation of children (OSEC) in the count...

Senator Sherwin T. Gatchalian on Thursday called on the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) and the Inter-Agency Council Against Child Pornography (IACACP) to sustain and boost efforts to curb online sexual exploitation of children (OSEC) in the country. Senator Sherwin Gatchalian (M

Think twice before engaging in online adoption because it is tantamount to child trafficking. Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)(MANILA BULLETIN) This was the stern warning issued by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to prospective adoptive parents follow