Innabuyog

INNABUYOG was established in March 8, 1990 with 24 founding organizations of indigenous peasant women, workers, youth and students inspired by various struggles of indigenous peasant women in the Cordillera in defending their land, life and resources. It has now grown to 177 member organizations all over the region and continues to evolve as a mass movement of indigenous and democratic groups of women in the Cordillera region. INNABUYOG was formed: (a) to give a collective voice for the marginalized yet struggling women of the Cordillera on the issues of land, rights and self-determination in relation to dominant socio-economic structures and policies in the country, globalization and militarization; (b) to bring their various efforts together towards a common perspective of liberating women from prevailing concepts of feudal-patriarchy which had tied women to the homes and to traditional roles thus limiting the women’s more active participation to the development of their communities; (c) to collectively act against forces which perpetrate violence against indigenous women and the violation of human rights of women and children; (d) to be part in asserting the Cordillera indigenous peoples’ right to self-determination, assert indigenous peasant women’s right to land and resources to ensure economic prosperity and where their right to land and resources becomes the basis of enjoying economic prosperity and food security of their communities; and (e) to popularize and assert good practices and experiences of indigenous women in the Cordillera on land, life, rights and self-determination issues to other indigenous women’s organizations, women’s groups and peoples’ movements. INNABUYOG integrates organizing, research, education and training, mass campaigns and mobilizations in building the women’s movement in the Cordillera. It comes out with a quarterly publication, the Innabuyog Newsletter, a news and analysis of current issues