MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/24 November) – The country’s “unchecked culture of impunity” is the deeper reason behind Monday’s massacre in Maguindanao that claimed the lives of at least 40 people including the wife of a candidate for governor, two female lawyers, and 12 journalists, a Mindanao-based advocacy group today said.

ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/22 November)– Traditional Subanen leaders and chieftains of Zamboanga Peninsula gathered November 21-22 in Pagadian City to draft their guidelines for Free and Prior Informed Consent (FPIC), an inherent right of indigenous peoples to be respected and for prospective corporations to comply with before they could start utilizing the Lumads’ ancestral domains. Ronald [...]

SIMUAY, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao — A team from Konsult Mindanaw presented Sunday afternoon to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front the results of its year-long community consultations on peace in Mindanao. Fr. Albert Alejo, SJ, project director of Konsult Mindanaw, presented the findings to MILF vice chair for political affairs Ghazali Jaafar, inside the pink room [...]

COLUMBIO, Sultan Kudarat (MindaNews / November 20) – Some 100 anti-mining advocates who trooped to the municipal gymnasium here on Friday were initially prevented from entering but later allowed inside, without thier placards, to listen and raise their concerns about the impact of the mining operations of foreign-backed Sagittarius Mines, Inc. (SMI). Uniformed military and [...]

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/04 November) — A group of Mindanao-based businessmen will convene in Makati City on Thursday (Nov. 5) with top business executives from various parts of the country to discuss possible partnerships that would further enhance trade and investment initiatives and the continuing peace efforts in the island. Vicente Lao, chair of the [...]