C. Article 14 : : Rural women The report provides information on access to livelihood and support services (paras 156 – 155) including tenure for women. It is however silent on indigenous women’s access to or security of tenure in relation to ancestral lands. Even with the IPRA (paras 150 – 151) that allows for the titling of ancestral land, there are a lot of ancestral land claims to be recognized yet through a complicated and expensive process. Meanwhile, projects and programs continue to enter and create conflict on indigenous territories. Documentation by civil society organizations point to some 45 incidences of displacement among 9 indigenous communities from 12 provinces in Mindanao from June 2010 to March 2012. This does not yet include the well-publicized recent Lumad evacuation to the UCCP compound in Davao City, Philippines, following the brutal murder of community leaders in front of the whole community in September 2015. As inferred from the results of the project earlier mentioned, indigenous women are disproportionately affected when displaced from their ancestral domains and/or lands whether by armed conflict, landgrabs, disasters or calamities. Food security is a primary concern for indigenous women when displacement occurs. Deprived of their basic source of production, economic base and participation, indigenous women’s decision making spaces shrink as options become limited. This is anti-thesis to empowerment. Minda "Dindin" Dalinan, 36, from the Blaan indigenous tribe is a mother to eight children, ages 1 to 17. Dalinan left her children under the care of her husband and relatives to participate in a month-long campaign against militarization of Lumad communities. She didn't want to leave them but she knew that joining the protest was something she had to do to try to give them a peaceful life. "In 2004, the military killed my father. My father is a member of the tribal council in our community. He was stubborn. He did not want to give up our ancestral land so armed men killed him. I just want the killings to stop. My dream is to see an end to human rights violations," Dalinan said. "Why would a mother like me leave her eight children?" she said. "It's because the human rights violations in our community are so rampant. I have to join this protest. It's too much." 19 Much have been said about resolving land and tenure for women but Bai Ellen Manlimbaas, 55 years old and a Matigsalog community leader from Bukidnon, whose community evacuated to Davao City due to military atrocities, says it simply :                                                                                                                 19  http://womensenews.org/2016/03/indigenous-­‐women-­‐in-­‐philippines-­‐are-­‐fighting-­‐for-­‐their-­‐ way-­‐of-­‐life/     19  

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