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The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) approved the release of P335.81 million as Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao’s (BARMM) share in taxes. Budget Secretary Amenah F. Pangandaman said on Thursday, Nov. 10, said that BARMM gets P335.81 million share from the taxes and oth

The transition to self-rule in the Bangsamoro, the majority-Muslim region in the southern Philippines, is proceeding apace. Militants outside the associated peace process are losing strength but could recover. Regional and national authorities should do all in their power to keep that from happening.

Commission-on-Human-Rights Rebuilding the houses of the 2017 Marawi siege victims will help boost the morale of displaced residents, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) stressed as it lauded the House of Representatives for its “speedy adoption” of the Senate Bill (SB) No. 2420 on Marawi Siege

BETTER DAYS This Oct. 23 marks the 4th year since Marawi City was freed from the lawless elements who sought to turn the locality into a wilayat or an “administrative division” of the ISIS caliphate. On that day, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana declared the city’s liberation marking the end of

ON the occasion of the fourth year commemoration of the “liberation of Marawi” from an extremist siege, a party-list lawmaker on Monday urged Congress to fast-track the promised rehabilitation to the war-torn city through the immediate passage of the Marawi Compensation bill. Anak Mindanao Party-list Rep. Amihilda Sangcopan, in a…

The national government is looking at including additional programs in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) under the proposed 2023 national budget, the Department of Finance (DOF) said. During a recent Intergovernmental Relations Body (IGRB) meeting, key officials of the

Lombay Ka Marawi provides relief goods, solar lamps to Marawi IDPs Philippine Information Agency 22 May 2021, 20:38 GMT+10 MARAWI CITY, May 21 (PIA)--As part of the commitment and support to the commemoration of the week-long Marawi Week of Peace, the Lombay Ka Marawi (LKM) along with the IMCCC Center for Community Extension and Social Development Services, Inc. (ICES-Dev), its founding organization, delivered relief goods and solar lamps to internally displaced persons (IDPs) in transitory she...

Published December 14, 2020, 2:53 PM A child rights organization underscored on Monday that more jobs and livelihood for women in conflict-affected Mindanao provinces will improve the lives of thousands of displaced children and families who face risks from lingering armed-conflict and the impact of COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Ted ALJIBE / AFP / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) In celebration of the International Day of Human Rights, the Save the Children Philippines (SCP) has called for strength...

MARAWI CITY, Dec. 10 (PIA) - Save the Children Philippines believes more jobs and livelihood for women in conflict-affected Mindanao provinces will improve the lives of thousands of displaced children and their families who face risks from lingering armed conflict, and the socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The child rights organization marks the International Day of Human Rights calling for the strengthening of women’s rights to economic empowerment, and critical participation i...