Davao City Mayor Sebastian Duterte after his oath-taking as then incoming vice mayor at the Sangguniang Panlungsod on Friday, 27 June 2025. MindaNews file photo by MANMAN DEJETO
I have always deeply valued how MindaNews consistently amplifies voices that are too often sidelined — Indigenous communities, Moro groups, and many others whose stories deserve space and dignity. You remind us that journalism must listen, not just report. As
Philippine Coast Guard divers preparing their gear for underwater operations in the search and retrieval operations for the remaining missing passengers and crew of M/V Trisha Kerstin-3 which sank off Hadji Muhtamad, Basilan in the evening of January 26,2026. MindaNews photo by QUEENIE CASIMIRO
PEOPLE POWER. A child asks her aunt to explain the People Power photographs on display at the MIC Cursillo House in Davao City on Sunday (25 February 2024), the 38th commemoration of the People Power Revolution. After the mass, a forum was held with Retired Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio talking about why the moves to amend the 1987 Constitution must be opposed. MindaNews file photo by CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS
Former President Rodrigo Duterte during his first appearance before the International Criminal Court via video link from his detention center in The Hague, the Netherlands, on 14 March 2025. Duterte is facing charges crimes against humanity in relation to his bloody war on drugs during his term as mayor, and later as president. ICC photo
High-powered firearms surrendered in Basilan in this photo taken 17 October 2024. OPAPRU photo
The South Cotabato Sangguniang Panlalawigan holds a hearing on the coal mining project in Barangay Ned, Lake Sebu in South Cotabato on Monday, 23 February 2026. MindaNews photo by BONG S. SARMIENTO
City Councilors offered a prayer for “fairness, clarity, and due process” for ex-President Rodrigo R. Duterte at the start of its regular session on Tuesday, 24 February 2026. The ex-president is accused of having committed crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court (ICC). MindaNews photo by Antonio L. Colina IV
Residents of Malindawag in Barangay Abuno, Iligan City make do with a makeshift bridge in crossing the Tubod River on Tuesday, 24 February 2026. The original steel bridge was washed out by Tropical Storm Basyang (Penha), then a temporary bridge made of slabs of concrete was also damaged when the river swelled on Sunday, 22 February 2026. MindaNews photo by BOBBY TIMONERA
The Philippines is once again arguing in the wrong courtroom. Not The Hague—that part is finally right. The argument I mean is the one happening on television, in senatorial halls, in social media threads across the country: ICC versus sovereignty.
