Indigenous Women offered song, prayer to protest Kaliwa Dam Project March 8, 2019/Quezon City – “Ang lupa ay ginawa hindi para lunurin sa tubig.” “Land has been created not to be drowned in water”. This is a line in the song sang in Dumagat, translated in Filipino, by the Indigenous Women in front of the…
PAHAYAG NG MGA KATUTUBONG KABABAIHAN Para sa March 8, International Women’s Day Dahil sa lupa kami nabubuhay, dahil sa lupa kami pinapatay. Kundi man biglaan at tahasan, kami ay pinapatay unti-unti, dahan-dahan; sa pamamagitan ng pagpasok ng mga dayuhan sa aming lupaing ninuno – para magmina, mag troso, magtayo ng dam, ng mga plantasyon, magbukas…
INDIGENOUS WOMEN to Gov’t: Stop Violence, Focus on Food and Poverty Iba, Zambales / 3.8.18 – “Dahil sa lupa kami nabubuhay, dahil sa lupa kami pinapatay.” “Land is why we live, land is why we are killed.” This is the statement of the Indigenous women to describe the current situation that most of their communities…
March 8 2018 – International Women’s Day RISE, RESIST, RECLAIM our rights, our voice, our territories We have been told to go to hell when we filed a complaint against then candidate Duterte with the Gender Ombud for violation of Magna Carta of Women, with his rape jokes and other sexist remarks. We were on…
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women Marchers with Purple Masks Call for the End of Violence Against Indigenous Women @katutubonglilak (Quezon City/Philippines) – “Today, we speak up. We, indigenous women, who are among the poorest of the poor, hungrier among the hungry, seek justice for the continuing violation of our…
Statement from LILAK (Purple Action for Indigenous Women’s Rights) A deadly difference of world view In his speech in the recently concluded Mining Conference 2014 organized by the Chamber of Mines of the Philippines (CoMP), Vice-President Jejomar Binay said that, “We must take an accurate inventory of our nation’s natural resources and if possible plot…
Indigenous women – still at the margins of developmentby Judy A. PasimioLILAK (Purple Action for Indigenous Women’s Rights) “In a period of lethargic global economic activity, we registered an astounding 6.8 percent GDP growth in 2012. We surpassed this in the first quarter of 2013, when we reported growth of 7.8 percent—the highest recorded GDP…
LILAK on the International Indigenous Women’s Day September 5 was declared as International Indigenous Women’s Day by Indigenous Women of Latin American in 1983. This was in honor of Bartolina Sisa, an Aymara resistance leader who was brutally executed by royalist forces in La Paz, now the capital of Bolivia, on September 5, 1782. Bartolina,…
