Lumad killings to take center stage in intl rights confab in Davao
Lumad killings to take center stage in intl rights confab in Davao
DAVAO CITY—Some 200 visitors from 25 countries worldwide will attend a conference on human rights, focusing on the killings of the indigenous peoples (IPs) or Lumads in Mindanao.
In a courtesy call at the City Council on Tuesday, Dr. Angie M. Gonzales of the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP) said they chose Davao City as the venue of the conference to highlight the plight of the Lumad people.
“As you very well know the killings and the attacks of the communities, especially in the communities, had become very rampant in recent years so it was a conscious decision to hold this conference in Davao,” she said.
Gonzales said the conference is a gathering of organizations, movements, institutions and individuals “in solidarity of the Filipino people’s struggle, to assert their rights as a people and achieve just and lasting peace.”
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