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On the island of Mindanao, in the south of the Philippine archipelago, the creation in 2019 of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) was a particularly significant event in the country’s history. It marked the end of decades of conflict over recognition of the right to (...)
OPEN STATEMENT OF THE TIMUAY JUSTICE AND GOVERNANCE (TJG) ON THE ALARMING SITUATION OF THE HOPELESS TËDURAY AND LAMBANGIAN NON-MORO INDIGENOUS PEOPLES (NMIPS) IN SOME VILLAGES OR SITIOS OF BARANGAY BIARONG, SOUTH UPI MAGUINDANAO DEL SUR WHO ARE AFFECTED BY THE MORO CLAN FEUD WHO SETTLED IN THE (...)
On 23 May it will have been six years since the Maute group waved the Islamic State (IS) flag over the Islamic city of Marawi in the Philippines. The Maute group was a radical militant group, led by brothers and former Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) members Omar and Abdullah Maute. (...)
We, in the Task Force Barat , a formation of Tëduray, Lambangian and Mënubo Dulangan Indigenous Political Structures (IPS), Indigenous Peoples Organizations (IPOs) and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), view the Typhoon Paeng tragedy, affecting 1,730 Tëduray, Lambangian and Mënubo Dulangan (...)
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 10 November) – Tëduray leaders and survivors on Thursday welcomed Senator Robinhood Padilla’s resolution seeking an investigation into the alleged forced relocation of the Tëdurays in December 2020 to a relocation site in Kusiong, Datu Odin Sinsuat in Maguindanao del (...)
MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Robinhood Padilla is pushing for a Senate investigation into the alleged “forced relocation” of the Teduray people to a site hit by a landslide during the onslaught of Severe Tropical Storm “Paeng.”
Citing a report by the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Padilla said (...)
DAVAO CITY—The Teduray tribal community in Maguindanao del Norte province blamed the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) for failing to act on their 2020 petition against their relocation at the foot of Mt. Minandar in Sitio Tinabon, Barangay Kusiong, of Datu Odin Sinsuat town (...)
Enough Time for an Informed Decision!
The Interfaith Movement for Peaceful and Clean Elections (IM4PEACE) is a non-partisan peoples’ movement which acts as citizen’s electoral watchdog that works closely with Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) in Maguindanao and Cotabato (...)
MILF chairman Ahod Balawag Ebrahim stays on board as interim chief minister as President Marcos finally names members of the BTA.
MANILA, Philippines – Officials of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) took their oath on Friday, August 12, at Malacañang Palace.
In a (...)
MANILA, Philippines – President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s first State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday, July 25, outlined lofty plans for the country under his administration, yet was silent on matters concerning the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).
The (...)
The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) is a region in Southern Philippines that has been mired in decades of conflict rooted in exclusionary economic growth and historical injustice committed against the tri-peoples in the region (i.e., the Muslims or the Moro, the (...)
DAVAO CITY, Philippines — PASAKA Confederation of Lumad Organizations in Mindanao and Salugpongan Ta Tanu Igkanugon deputy secretary general Datu Benito Bay-ao chided at the claim of former PASAKA secretary general Jong Monzon that the Lumad struggle is a ploy of the Communist Party of the (...)
The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines’s petition, if approved, will bring minimum wage in Northern Mindanao to more than P700 a day
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Philippines – Organized workers on Tuesday, March 29, submitted a petition for a P413-increase in the daily minimum wage in Northern (...)
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Philippines — A group of Maranao peace advocates criticize the military’s aerial bombing in Lanao del Sur Monday and doubts their claims that the ISIS-Maute group are present in that area.
Military reports said they launched an aerial assault targeting armed insurgents (...)
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 13 February) – Supporters of Presidential candidate Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and his running mate, Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte, rushed out of their UniTeam headquarters along Ponciano Reyes St. on Wednesday when the “Ronda ng Pag-asa” (Motorcade of Hope) of supporters of (...)
A Davao-based women’s group that campaigned for Mayor Rodrigo Duterte when he ran for President, helped craft the Women Agenda for his platform of governance and continued to support him as President “despite his expletives, cussing and misogynistic remarks” in the last 19 months is now (...)
On November 22, 1984, in Zamboanga City, southern Philippines, close to 200,000 people paid final tribute to a fallen leader. Cesar Cortes Climaco, 68 years old, city mayor and elected member of the national legislature, was being laid to a final rest.
Along the 10-kilometer uphill route of (...)
Lawyer Juan Macababbad was a public interest lawyer. Two unidentified gunmen shot him in the head seven times.
Public interest lawyer Juan Macababbad was shot dead outside his home in Surallah town, South Cotabato, on Wednesday, September 15, the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) (...)
Together with fellow researchers from Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology (Iligan City, The Philippines), we initiated research in February 2020 about the situation and mental health of youth who were evacuated from Marawi during the 2017 siege. At that time, the COVID-19 (...)
Some call it a baby step toward accountability, but the silence among governors and mayors is ‘quite telling’
Human rights activists, lawyers, religious leaders, and academics in Mindanao lauded the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for moving to start an (...)
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