DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 09 October) — “We have been waiting for three years for the passage of the Indigenous Peoples’ (IP) Code of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM)…
DAVAO CITY — “We have been waiting for three years for the passage of the Indigenous Peoples’ Code of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao . Perhaps, it is the women they are waiting for, for the code to finally be passed,” Fintailan Rebecca Mokudef of the Teduray community said.
Land-based violent conflicts, presence of armed groups, recruitment of children and youth by non-state armed groups, absence of social services, displacements, killing of IP leaders, culture of fear and silence, and lack of freedom of expression were main issues that came out from the discussions. “Through the IP Code, land ownership within ancestral domains can become gender-responsive by ensuring that IP women can own land also so that even when an IP woman separates from her husband especially because of domestic violence, she is not left landless,” Froilyn Mendoza, IP woman leader and now a Member of the Parliament in the Bangsamoro, suggested.
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