STATEMENTS BY IID AND ITS NETWORKS
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IID Letter to Partners on COVID-19
Dear Friends and Partners, Warm greetings of peace in these trying times! We wanted to update you on how the Initiatives for International Dialogue (IID) has responded to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and to reassure you we are doing all we can to ease any...
Mindanao group urges Duterte to ‘do a Bangsamoro’ for GRP-NDFP talks
The Mindanao-based regional non-government organization, Initiatives for International Dialogue (IID) today urged President Rodrigo Duterte to ‘do a Bangsamoro’ in the government’s stalled peace negotiations with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines...
Position Paper On The Dissolution Of The Task Force Bangon Marawi, Creation Of Oversight Commission On Recovery, Reconstruction And Rehabilitation Of Marawi, And Call For Unconditional Immediate Return Of The Internally Displaced People (IDPs)
Presented by Prof. Tirmizy Abdullah of the Ranaw Civil Society Organizations during the public hearing conducted by the Senate’s Special Committee on Marawi City Rehabilitation on 21 February 2020 The immediate response of the government to Marawi Siege was the...
Independent Mindanao Indigenous Peoples appeal for dialogue with government and NDFP on recognition of their ancestral domain
“Indigenous peoples’ communities have had enough being caught in the crossfire in the country’s armed conflict between the insurgents and the state. This cycle of turning our ancestral domains into battlegrounds for more than 50 years now must end. Decades of conflict...
Engaging the peace process through peacebuilding
Despite the odds, 2019 has been a productive year for civil society and the peacebuilding community that actively engaged both the Bangsamoro and GRP-NDFP peace processes. For one, civil society and peace organizations including networks of grassroots communities...
Never say never on the peace process: Expressing full support for the resumption of GRP-NDFP peace negotiation
It is with the recognition of the value and legitimacy of peace process that we, members of the civil society and peace movement, commend and welcome the recent declaration of a 16-day unilateral and reciprocal nationwide ceasefires between the Philippine government...