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ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/10 Dec) -- Maranao civil society organizations in the Lanao area celebrated the International Human Rights Day Wednesday by rallying behind a bill that intends to penalize discrimination.
After a two-day conference on human rights at the Elena Tower Inn here, civil society leaders, as well as children, marched along the highway here, bearing with them placards and streamers opposing discrimination, calling for a stop to the war, and promoting peace.
They likewise asked government to uphold human rights and to end poverty by achieving the millennium development goals.
Amie Sangcopan, chief of staff of the party list group Anak Mindanao (AMIN), said that with the wave of dissent against the approval of Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) also came the “resurgence of anti-Moro discrimination and prejudice.”(More.. click here MindaNews)
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