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Monday, April 04, 2005
Sectoral groups draft own agenda
By Stephen Capillas
VARIOUS sectoral groups completed Sunday a series of workshops aimed at raising their concerns before government in a two-day forum entitled "Making Justice Work for the Poor" held at the Balay Mindanao Peace Center in Upper Bulua this city.
In an interview Balaod Mindanao official Atty. Arlene Bag-ao told Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro that the forum gathered various people's organizations (POs) from all over Mindanao to draft a comprehensive outline detailing their respective stances on issues affecting their welfare.
This, she said, includes diverse matters like the imminent mining operations to be set up by multinational companies, reproductive health programs, the log ban, fisheries and agrarian reform, and the delay in the resolution of cases among others.
Bag-ao said land tenure, agrarian reform, mining and logging fall under the forum's theme of resource tenure, which in turn revolves around providing greater access to resources to the poor and lumad tribes in Mindanao.
She said the participating groups come from Misamis Oriental, Misamis Occidental and Bukidnon provinces to as far as General Santos and other parts of Mindanao.
Bag-ao said these groups then link up with alternative law groups like theirs in order to draft a common program that would address their concerns to the National Government.
"Through this forum we would be able to consolidate all our respective ideas and positions and craft a common agenda on how best to raise this to the attention of those government officials in Manila," she said.
(April 4, 2005 issue)
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