Unity of Lumad Women

 

Sabokahan Tomo Kamalitanan

Sabokahan Tomo Kamalitanan (Unity of Lumad Women) is a grassroots organization empowering and capacitating Lumad (Indigenous) women and LGBTQ+ from Mindanao, Philippines to join the frontlines in the defense of ancestral lands and self-determination of their people.

Sabokahan envisions and aspires towards a world in which all people are free from exploitation and militarization.

Sabokahan works to:

1)    create short-term and long-term changes for the emancipation from forms of violence including feudal-patriarchal practices such as child-marriage and multiple wife system, domestic abuse, and state-sanctioned abuse

2)    Carry out or support programs for health, education, climate calamity relief, security, food security, and livelihood

3)    Advocate, campaign and educate at the regional, national, and international levels for human rights and environmental issues

4)    Protect human rights and environmental defenders facing threat

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Sabokahan Youth are continuing

the struggle for women and LGBTQ+ empowerment in the defense of land, livelihood, and self-determination, that our elders began.

 

#SavePantaron

“To all the Manobo and Lumad people, our resolve must remain unfaltering like the Pantaron on which generations of our people have lived and depended on for generations. We must prevail for as long as the causes of our oppression continue to persist and deny us of the right to live with dignity.”

- Bai Bibyaon Ligkayan Bigkay, Chair Emeritus of Sabokahan Unity of Lumad Women

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