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Cambodia: Indigenous women raise their voices to protect their forest and traditional livelihoods |
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Written by Margherita Maffii, Phnom Penh, September 2008
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In North East Cambodia different indigenous groups have lived for centuries, preserving an immense and extremely diverse forest ecosystem, maintained intact until the recent decades, when massive forest exploitation started. Indigenous agricultural practices, as in many other forest-covered areas in the world, have contributed to maintain biodiversity and are among the most sustainable so far known. The subversion of this ecological and social system is full of consequences for indigenous communities and women, as this Bunong woman from Mondulkiri explains: “The company has cut all the trees to do the plantation. They say that indigenous people cut the forest too. But indigenous people don’t do that! We ask the spirits before cutting, we try to understand from the dreams if the spirits agree, then we cut just small plots to do our fields, and we never cut the big trees. The company instead cut all, so now there are no trees, animals and even vegetables. There were six big forests here around, and lots of wild animals; we could find vegetables, medicines, resin, roots, fishes, fruits. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 24 September 2008 )
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Naga Women and Climate Change |
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Written by Marigold Maring Keisha, Vice-president of Naga Women's Union in Manipur, Northeast India
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Friday, 19 September 2008 |
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The Naga indigenous peoples of Manipur State live in the four Hill Districts of Manipur. Manipur is situated in the North Eastern part of India. It shares borders with Myanmar in the East, Nagaland in the North, Assam in the West and Mizoram in the South. It covers an area of 22,327 square km. The State has five hill district and four valley/ plain districts. Almost 70 per cent of the total land area of the State belong to the Nagas. Culture and tradition tell us that the Naga indigenous peoples of Manipur depend on natural resources and cultivation for its livelihood. Women play a major role in traditional agricultural practices in determining what seeds to grow on a particular season. They also maintain medicinal plants growing in the forests for their wellbeing. For these reasons, indigenous women are bonded to land and their resources. Nowadays, due to climate change, the Naga indigenous women of Manipur suffer in many aspects. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 24 September 2008 )
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Repro health bill activists rally for public support |
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Written by Lyn Ramo/ Nordis
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Sunday, 14 September 2008 |
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BAGUIO CITY ― With the congressional plenary hearing set anytime next week on House Bill 5043 or the Reproductive Health Care Bill, its advocates work double-time at gathering signatures in support of the bill. Eden R. Divinagracia of the Philippine NGO Council on Population, Health and Welfare (PNGOC), in a press conference here, Thursday said there are now at least 90 co-sponsors for the bill that Cong. Edcel Lagman is pushing. Gabriela Women’s Party’s Representatives Liza Maza and Luz Ilagan also support the bill. Divinagracia appeared in the said press conference with Cordillera Population Officer Aurora Quiray, Department of Health’s Dr. Amelita M. Pangilinan and Baguio Health Department’s Purificacion S. Serna and Lolita Dicang. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 17 September 2008 )
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