ZAMBOANGA CITY – THEMoro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has acknowledged the appointment of University of the Philippines College of Law Dean Marvic Leonen to head the government negotiation team when the peace talk will resume next month. ...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A MEMBER of the International Monitoring Team (IMT), which is overseeing the ceasefire accord between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), has asked the leadership of the Moro rebels to castigate its...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – THE local peace and order council here has directed security authorities to resolve an almost year-old “family feud” that affected at least three villages in the city’s east coast. In a meeting earlier this July, Mayor...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – PEACE Advocates Zamboanga (PAZ) and Inter-Religious Solidarity Movement for Peace (IRSMP) in collaboration with the Department of Education (DepEd)-Zamboanga City Division Office conducted the Administrators’ Peace Education...
MANILA  – THE Philippines may have a new president but more than a hundred "private armies" still dominate local politics, using force and even murder to keep their masters in power, security experts warn. It is a problem that President...
ZAMBOANGA CITY- AS they continue the crusade against child trafficking and organ transplantations, two international human trafficking groups have joint hands to oppose a plan of the Health Department to lift the ban on organ selling to foreigners....
ITULOY ang laban tungo sa hustisya sa klima, pagkakapantay-pantay at pagsusulong ng karapatan sa sariling pagpapasya ng mga katutubo! Manipesto ng pagkakaisa ng mga dumalo sa Indigenous Peoples Gathering on Climate Change na ginanap noong ika-7...
THE Youth Solidarity for Peace (YSP) represented the youth sector in the concluded Philippine-American Friendship Day last July 4 at the United States Embassy in Manila . The celebration commemorated the 234th Anniversary of US Independence. The...
ZAMBOANGA CITY- AFTER more than two decades of existence, the now-defunct Office of the Muslim Affairs (OMA) has been transformed into the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF) to pave way for a grant for full powers to execute all sorts of...
NOW it’s definite! The GRP-MILF peace talks will be resumed! This answers the clamor aired by various well-meaning groups even before the smoke of the May 10 electoral battle had settled, so to speak. A welcome surprise is the young Aquino...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – CHANGING the facilitator in the peace talks between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) could bring about negative effects and might disrupt the flow of the more than decade-long negotiations, a senior...
The media has a tendency to negative reporting, which rewards perpetrators of violence with broad attention. Meanwhile, peace initiatives seldom make the headlines. Due to superficial reporting by Western newspapers and broadcasting stations,...
IN THE same afternoon when two more grenade attacks occurred in strife-torn Mampang barangay, members of the Inter-Religious Solidarity Movement for Peace (IRSMP) discussed how to resolve what has been described as a “very alarming” series of...
ZAMBOANGA CITY– UNSTABLE peace and order, an unresolved peace talk, power crisis, and high cost of doing business in Mindanao are just some of the key points that the incoming President-elect Benigno C. Aquino should take a serious look into in...
(This summarized Mindanao People’s Peace Agenda was formulated by the Mindanao Peacewaevers, a coalition of 10 peace-building civil society  groups located in Mindanao. The group met several times in the past months to analyze the region’s...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – THE lack of proper information among stakeholders about the peace talks between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is one of common reasons why some sectors in the country do not support the ongoing...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – AN international rights group has asked the incoming Aquino administration to create “rights-based governance” that will rectify the failure of the past government in addressing human rights violations in the country. ...
MANILA – IT’S the ideology, stupid! After spending billions of pesos in armaments and losing the lives of hundreds of soldiers and innocent civilians, a senior military official said this June the government must rethink its militarist...
SOMETHING new happened in the Philippines’ election system last May and this was the use of automation for the first time to generate quick election results. Despite the new technology, however, the elections hardly changed the country’s...
BANGKOK, Thailand (MindaNews/27 June) — I am writing this note here in Bangkok where I am participating in a reflection session with social activists of Thailand and drawing lessons and insights on the work of conflict transformation in Asia. ...

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