Militant groups in Davao City march around the city’s main streets in commemoration of the 59th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Keith Bacongco/AKP Images

Activists march in Davao to mark Human Rights Day

DAVAO CITY – Activists marched in the streets of the city on Monday to mark the 59th year of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Human rights groups here called on the government to stop deploying soldiers in Mindanao and demanded that the military surface missing activists. The Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center-Kasama sa Kalikasan, a policy advocacy group, also called on the government to stop the “militarization” in the hinterlands of Surigao del Sur. read on