Sunday, September 28, 2014

MILF: Prof. Ferrer: IPs Rights and fusaka inged assured in BBL

Posted to the MILF Website (Sep 28): Prof. Ferrer: IPs Rights and fusaka inged assured in BBL



Speaking at the 2014 Inter-Tribal Peace Summit held on September 26 at Upi, Maguindanao, a predominantly Teduray municipality, Professor Miriam Coronel-Ferrer, GPH Chief Negotiator gave updates on the latest progress of the peace process between the GPH-MILF peace panels. She said that another round of meeting is slated this September 27 to 29 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on normalization.
  
During the open forum, she elucidated on the Parliamentary System of government for the Bangsamoro. She explained that counting of votes during the referendum for the core territory will be by province, for the 6 municipalities in Lanao Del Sur, by municipality and for the 39 barangays in North Cotabato will be by barangay.

The 2014 Inter-Tribal Peace Summit is part of the project “Building Peace in Mindanao through Public Participation in Governance”, supported by the European Union and being implemented by the Conciliation Resources (CR) in partnership with the Teduray Lambangian Womens Organization Inc. (TLWOI), Pambansang Koalisyon ng Kababaihan sa Kanayunan (PKKK).

The summit co- sponsors were the Local Government Units (LGU) of Upi and South Upi, the Indigenous Peoples Technical Working Group (IP-TWG) and other IP’s Civil Society Organizations.

The objective of the peace summit is to foster better understanding of the peace process from the inception of Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) and its Annexes, the Comprehensive Agreement on Bangsamoro (CAB), the submission of the draft Basic Law to the Office of the President and the turn-over of the BBL to congress by President Benigno Aquino III last September 10, 2014.

The summit also aims to come up with collective efforts in influencing the Congress to expedite the enactment of the BBL into law.

IP’s within and outside the core area of the Bangsamoro would like to achieve common understanding in upholding their rights to distinct identity, territory, customary rights among others.

The summit was attended by hundreds of IP’s from the core and contiguous areas of the proposed Bangsamoro Political Entity that includes Teduray, Lambangian, Dulangan Manobo, Higaonon and Erumanon Manobo. 

The consensus points on the thematic   issues among IPs in the core area particularly the outputs at Samal Island, Davao dialogue was presented.
Power point presentation was also made on the scale map of the Mamalu and Tabunaway territorial claims through Googles satellite maps.

http://www.luwaran.com/index.php/welcome/item/1240-prof-ferrer-ips-rights-and-fusaka-inged-assured-in-bbl

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