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Marawi Prof Wants to Go Home to ‘Ground Zero’ to Look for USB Flash Drive Containing Her Writings

“Marawi Prof Wants to Go Home to ‘Ground Zero’ to Look for USB Flash Drive Containing Her Writings,” is published in MindaNews on February 25, 2018. By Carolyn O. Arguillas/MindaNews MARAWI CITY — Retired Literature Professor Dalomabi “Dolly” Lao Bula of the Mindanao State University’s main campus wants...

Marawi Crisis: Women Ease Pains of Dislocation and Homelessness

By: Diana G. Mendoza SHE HEARD gunfire just outside her classroom in the Jamiatul Philippine Al-Islamia College in Banggolo, Marawi City. Teaching social science to college students, Sittie Haima Sultan wondered whether this was just another shooting that sometimes erupts in the area and ends as suddenly. But...

Peace is Key in Rebuilding Marawi – Bangsamoro Women

By: Diana G. Mendoza CONFRONTED WITH different kinds of crises, government must always reflect its recognition of the country’s diversity expressed invariably through its different faiths and cultures, with traditions that grow from core values. As relief and recovery efforts approached the fourth month for internally displaced persons...

‘No peace without women!’

“‘No peace without women!’” was first published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on July 9, 2017. By Rina Jimenez-David/Inquirer IN THE coverage of the current standoff in Marawi, the focus has been mostly on men — the forces led by the Maute brothers (with the strategic involvement of their mother...

War, Peace and Maternal and Child Health in the ARMM

“War, Peace and Maternal and Child Health in the ARMM,” is published in the social media news site Women Writing Women. This was first submitted to Women’s Peace Table. By Bugan Ni-Rosipan, (a nom de plume) a feature writer and multimedia artist, a hiker and cyclist, a mystic and...

Bontoc Women still Man the Night Watch

“Bontoc women still man the night watch,” was first published in the Nordis (Northern Dispatch Weekly) on July 3, 2016. By Kimberlie Ngabit-Quitasol/ Nordis (Northern Dispatch Weekly) BONTOC, Mountain Province — On June 27, some six elderly women gathered at a waiting shed in Samoki village of Bontoc with their...

The Tale of the Sack and the Hope of Muslim Women

Diana G. Mendoza Secretary Yasmin Busran-Lao of the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos who is also outgoing President Aquino’s presidential assistant for Muslim Affairs used to be a bakwit who was with her family every time they are whisked off by fighting between soldiers and rebels. “My family’s...

Muslim Women Lament Diaspora and Unattainable Peace

By Diana G. Mendoza “Pag buntis ka, maraming nangyayari sa loob mo. E pano na kung marami ring nangyayaring gulo sa labas mo?” (When you are pregnant, there are many changes inside you. What more when there are also upheavals in your environment?) said Anisa Taha, 51, an aleemat...

Liberating Badjao Women After War

“Liberating Badjao women after war,” was first published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on Jan. 10, 2016. By Julie S. Alipala/ Inquirer Mindanao THE MOST visible effect of the war between government forces and Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) members in the city in 2013 is the misery it brought to thousands...

A Lumad Widow’s Story

Jocelyn Campos, the widow of Dionel Campos, one of the three Lumads allegedly killed by paramilitary groups in Diatagon Village in Lianga, Surigao del Sur, on life of Lumads and Lumad killings.

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