Women’s Peace Table, launched in Mindanao  

DAVAO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / Dec. 12, 2011) – The Mindanao Commission on Women has launched the Women’s Peace Table that will connect the formal peace negotiations between the Aquino government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front to the women not only in the southern Philippines, but the rest of the country.

Peace negotiations are to resume in January next year in Malaysia which is brokering the talks. Both Manila and the MILF recently announced the addition of two respected Muslim women in the talks – Yasmin Lao for the government and lawyer Raissa Jajurie for the MILF panel.

“We rejoice in this positive direction the two parties are taking. Women have suffered too long and too much. But more than that, we know that women have the capacity and the commitment to be a significant actor to bring about a sustained and just peace in Mindanao,” Irene Santiago, of the Mindanao Commission on Women, said in a statement sent to the Mindanao Examiner.

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