Indigenous women's group calls for recognition of IP rights in 2023 SONA

Indigenous women leaders lament the exclusion of indigenous peoples from Marcos Jr.'s first SONA, and call for the president to deviate from using a type of governance that puts indigenous people in peril. SONA2023

Despite Marcos’ claim of championing indigenous peoples, members of the protesting tribe went home with their pleas ignored by the chief executive.Aside from facing alienation from the national Filipino majority, Ambol said IPs continue to struggle with delays in the issuance of ancestral domain titles, armed violence ensuing from land ownership feuds, and soaring prices of commodities – and it is the women who get the short end of the stick.

As Marcos was delivering his first SONA in 2022, authorities arrested and detained two lumad youth leaders after attending a protest rally at Freedom Park in Davao City.

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