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DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 23 November) – The Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), the peace agreement signed by the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in 2014, may not be fully implemented by June 30, 2025, the end of the six-year transition period in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao,
International IDEA and our partner, the Institute for Autonomy and Governance, were honoured to host a dialogue between our Indigenous Peoples (IP) Champions and representatives from many branches of government, known as Institutional Champions, in General Santos, Philippines in May. The Indigenous People’s Champions Project was first envisioned in 2021 as a platform to bring
On October 28, 2021, Rodrigo Duterte, then president of the Philippines, signed into law a three-year extension of the transition period of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao. The region’s first parliamentary elections are now scheduled for May 2025, alongside the national elections. In 2021, the Mindanao Peoples Caucus (MPC) actively campaigned for the extension of the transition period to provide more time for the Bangsamoro Transition Authority and the Philippine government to fully implement and deliver the commitments they made in the 2014 peace agreement between the na...