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An encounter with Batuan’s women farmers
Written by Lyn V. Ramo   
Sunday, 16 November 2008

TUBA, Benguet — A woman who later introduced herself as Margarita, in her late 60s, walked from her house built in the middle of the rice paddies carved on the mountain slope.

She was gasping for air as she settled into one of the mono-block chairs young boys and girls earlier arranged for the November 9 medical and dental mission at Batuan Elementary School in Barangay Nangalisan, here.

It was a Sunday and as expected some residents would be in church but people, with toddlers and babies in tow, lined up to get free consultation and medicines at the pediatric and medical clinics set up for the purpose.

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Beauties at the city’s beauty shops : Mandi girls are the main workforce of the beauty salons
Written by Shahnaz Parveen   
Tuesday, 14 October 2008

Tripola Shangma, a 20-year-old Mandi (Garo) woman, ran away from home when she was fourteen, to fulfil her dream -- to work in a beauty salon.

Hailed from Jalchhatra village in Madhupur forest, Tripola soon found employment at a beauty parlour in Mirpur, one of around 400 such parlours in the city.

She became a skilled beauty worker within a year and now works at Farzana Shakil's, a top beauty salon in the city. For her, it was a dream-come-true mission.

Now she knows threading, haircut, facial, bridal make-up and all the other secrets of the beauty profession.

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 14 October 2008 )
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Cambodia: Indigenous women raise their voices to protect their forest and traditional livelihoods
Written by Margherita Maffii, Phnom Penh, September 2008   

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.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 24 September 2008 )
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Newsflash

In consideration of the recommendation of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) from its sixth session (PFII 2007 report, E/2007/43 E/C. 19/2007/12 at para. 105), a regional consultation with the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women (UNSRVAW), Dr. Yakin Erturk, and UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Indigenous Peoples (UNSRIP), Professor James Anaya, on “VIOLENCE AGAINST INDIGENOUS WOMEN IN THE ASIA PACIFIC” will be held on October 14-16, 2008 in New Delhi, India.

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