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Nov. 11, 2016 Meeting Iloilo Provincial Committee on VAWC (violence against women and their children) The second semester of last year (July - December 2015), the Iloilo Police Provincial Office (IPPO) reported 452 cases of physical assaults, 18 instances of “economic abuse” (deprivation of financial support), 124 incidents of “psychological abuses” (threats, verbal shaming) in Iloilo’s 42 towns and one component city (Passi). In the same period, 45 were sexually assaulted, 18 of whom raped. INSP. MONEVA All victims are women or their children and the perpetrators are husbands, live-in partners or males with whom the women victims had past dating relationship, explains Insp. Mary Grace Ceballos Moneba, chief of the women’s and children’s desk (WCD) of the IPPO. Each PNP station in the towns or cities has its own WCD that investigates cases of abuses against women and minors and, if warranted, file criminal charges against perpetrators. The second semester

November 15, 2016 Iloilo City Iloilo Province is "blessed" with enormous mineral wealth but only a handful or even none of its 1.9 million people may enjoy them. Worse this Central Philippine province may be reaping the curse if giant mining firms were to have their way of plundering its mineral wealth. The mining companies have applied to mine 10,000 hectares of its foreshore for palladium, platinum, silver "and other associated mineral deposits", SP Jeneda Salcedo-Orendain Three applicants filed their applications before the central office of the Mines and Geo-science Bureau (MGB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) which is a step to process its "exploration permit application" (EPA) that in turn, if the exploratory tests turn positive, would pave the way for the "financial and technical assistance agreement" (FTAA) a nice sounding gobbledygook which simply means a license to proceed with the plunder that i