We, the seventy-six (76) participants from the
different provinces of Mindanao representing the fifty-two (52) grassroots
organizations of Lumad, Bangsamoro and Migrant Settlers,
actively advocating and working for the advancement and protection of human rights
convened during the Mindanao Grassroots Human Rights Conference held at Dapit
Alim, Simbuco, Kolambugan, Lanao del Norte on September 3-5, 2015. We strongly
express,
The current global economic and political framework
is only at the best interest of the few;
The common people continuously experience massive
and intense curtailment and violations of their human rights. The absence of
sustainable and decent work; unjust and unfair system of labor like
contractualization and informalization; absence of support services from the
government like genuine agrarian reform and support to family-based and small
scale farmers and fisherfolks; lack of support and protection to OFWs; lack of
budget and insufficient implementation of program for education and other basic
social services; and imposition of profit-driven development to communities
such as mining, logging, agri-business plantation and construction of
coal-fired power plants have resulted to massive land grabbing of ancestral and
agricultural lands of the people and the devastation of the environment;
The poverty induced by inhumane development dictated
by a system that accumulates excessive profit, monopolizes and privatizes
natural resources have resulted to immense gap and unequal development of the
society and dehumanize the common people;
The on-going armed conflict and militarization in
Mindanao extremely violates the rights of the people to life and to live
peacefully. This also causes massive displacement of hundreds of thousands of
people from their land, work and home.
Human rights defenders and advocates were persecuted
while others experience harassment because of ‘red tagging’ – they are
associated to rebel groups and other elements who alleged to be enemies of the
state and corporations.
In general, the Lumads,
Bangsamoro and Migrant Settlers in Mindanao are in great jeopardy as they
themselves are victims of impunity in defending human rights.
We believe that in our collective efforts, we can
strengthen the peoples’ movements to advance human rights as fundamental in
attaining genuine peace and sustainable development in Mindanao and in the
country in general;
We will promote mechanisms that would always protect
the victorious struggle of the people and the community for peace, development
and human right;
We are in
solidarity with all the movements in the local, national and international in
order to fortify the struggle for human rights;
We are unified in strengthening our movement as
response to the challenges and threats to the democratic realization of rights
of the people and of the environment;
We call and demand for:
·
Stop militarization in the communities!
·
Stop the divide and rule tactics employed
to the people in the communities!
·
Stop mining, logging, agri-business
plantations and construction of coal-fired power plants and other projects that
destroy the environment and community!
·
End harassments of the farmers and
tenants and genuinely implement agrarian and fisheries reforms!
·
Strict implementation of minimum wage,
social benefits and end contractualization practices in labor!
·
Sufficient program that protect OFWs and
all the workers!
·
End privatization of basic social
services (health, education, water, transportation, irrigation, electricity,
housing, etc.)!
·
Justice to the victims of extra-judicial
killings and destructive projects done by the state and non-state elements!
·
Fast track the process of ancestral
domain claims!
·
Efficient programs and services for the
victim-survivors of calamities and armed conflicts!
·
Genuine participation of the people and
the community in the peace processes in order to advances its inclusivity!
·
Full inclusion of Indigenous Peoples
Rights Act (IPRA) in the Bangsamoro Basic Law!
·
Promote peaceful means in resolving
armed conflicts in Mindanao!
·
Strictly implement the existing
mechanisms that fully realize human rights!
For the rights of all people and of the environment:
1.
Kaagapay OFW Resource and Service
Center
2.
Maharlika – DKMP-Lanao
3.
KALESALE - DKMP-Lanao
4.
Lig-ong Hiniusang Kusog sa mga
Kabus sa Iligan (LIHUK)
5.
Movement of Young Catalysts for
Change (MYCC)
6.
Kahugpungan sa mga Mangingisda sa
Kolambugan (KASAMAKO)
7.
Lanao Fisheries Advocacy Netwrok
(LFAN)
8.
Iligan Survivors Movement (ISM)
9.
LUMAKA
10. LAWIG
– Byahe sa Kausaban
11. Lapayan
Power Movement Association (LPMA)
12. Liga
ng Makabagong Kabataan (LMK)
13. Lanao
Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (LAHRA)
14. Mindanao
Peoples Peace Movement (MPPM)
15. Manga
Solo Parents Association (MASPA)
16. Nagkahiusang
Mangingisda sa Karumatan (NAMANGKA)
17. Mindanao
Tri-People Youth Center (MTPYC)
18. Teduray-Lambangian
Youth and Student Association (TLYSA)
19. Timuay
Justice and Governance (TJG)
20. Mindanao
Tri-people Women Resource Center (MTWRC)
21. Alyansa
ng Mamamayan para sa Karapatang Pantao (AMKP)
22. Nagkahiusang
Mag-uumang Organiko (NAMAO)
23. Filipino
Katoliko (FK) CARAGA
24. Mindanao
Indigenous Peoples Initiative, Research Assistance Center (MIPIRAC)
25. Kagkalimwa
OFW Federation
26. Cadiz
Farmers Association
27. SDL-GenSan
28. Kalamungog
Farmers Association (KALFA)
29. ALAKOP
Council of Timuays
30. Inged
Fintailan – Timuay Justice and Governance
31. Tri-people
Youth (TRY)-Change
32. Ranao
Women and Children Resource Center (RWCRC)
33. Demokratikong
Kilusang Magbubukid (DKMP)-Lanao
34. Tri-people
Organization against Disaster (TRIPOD) Foundation
35. Pigkarangan
Youth and Student Organization (PYSO)
36. Ranaw
Tri-people Movement for Genuine Peace and development (RTMGPD)
37. Sumpay
Mindanao
38. Soodoroy
de Kelebunan Women
39. Mamalu
Descendants Organization (MDO)
40. Sustainable
Alternatives for the Advancement of Mindanao (SALAM)
41. Lanao
Aquatic and Marine Fisheries Center for Community Development (LAFCCOD)
42. Nagkahiusang
Organisasyon sa mga Mangingisda sa Tubod (NOMATUB)
43. Convergence
of NGOs/POs in Zamboanga del Sure for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development
(CONZARRD)
44. Kahugpungan
sa mga Mag-uuma ug Mamumuong Kababayen-an (KASAMMAKA)
45. Lig-ong
Panaghiusa sa mga Mamamuo sa Banika sa Lanao (LPMBL)
46. Kilusang
Maralita sa Kanayunan (KILOS KA)
47. Electoral
Reforms and Development Assistance
Center (ERDAC)
48. Ilelama
Council of Timuays
49. Coal
Resistance (CoRe) Movement
50. Teatro
Pag-asa
51. Alyansa
sa mga Kabus sa Lungsod ug Syudad (AKLAS)
52. Alyansa
ng Kabataang Mindanao para sa Kapayapaan (AKMK)
Contact
Persons:
Adona
Orquillas
Chairperson
Alliance
of Tri-people for the Advancement of Human Rights ( ALTAHR)
Mobile
#: 09356659608
Jennevie
Cornelio
Secretary
General
Alliance
of Tri-people for the Advancement of Human Rights ( ALTAHR)
Mobile
#: 09061370457