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Author: Amina Rasul

SHE TALKS PEACE: Tackling Intolerance

QUEZON CITY (MindaNews /03 October) — I was in Phnom Penh last week for a meeting of the ASEAN Women for Peace Registry (AWPR) with the Governing Council of the ASEAN Institute for Peace and Reconciliation (AIPR).  Launched December 2018

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SHE TALKS PEACE: The Future of MNLF Women

QUEZON CITY (MindaNews / 04 September) — Does Islam limit women’s leadership?   My cohost, Dr. Ayesah Uy Abubakar, and I had an interesting conversation with Hadja Nur-Ainee Tan-Lim.  One could say that she grew up with the Moro National Liberation Front

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SHE TALKS PEACE: More on Sabah and FVR Empowering Women

QUEZON CITY (MindaNews / 28 Aug) — I have received many messages requesting more information about my previous posting on the Sabah Claim.  Let me share a piece that I had written for BusinessWorld (“Intropectives,” August 21, 2022), below: Several descendants of  Jamalul Kiram,

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SHE TALKS PEACE: FVR, the Peacemaker

QUEZON CITY (MindaNews / 07 August) — Our deepest condolences to the family of our beloved FVR – Tita Ming, her daughters Angel,  Cristy, Carolina, Gloria, and her grandchildren.  We share your loss. When Fidel V. Ramos (FVR) ran for President in

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SHE TALKS PEACE: Women and Justice in BARMM

QUEZON CITY (MindaNews / 19 June) — Last week, The United Nations (UN) commended Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. for his role in advancing the Bangsamoro peace process as Presidential Pdviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity.  UN Resident Coordinator in the Philippines

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SHE TALKS PEACE: Myanmar community army

QUEZON CITY (MindaNews / 12 June) — New corruption charges were filed against Myanmar’s elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi this week, who has been under arrest  since February 2021.  According to the junta’s  Anti-Corruption Commission, they have new evidence on top of

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SHE TALKS PEACE: Eco-warriors and fun 

QUEZON CITY (MindaNews / 01 May) —  Advanced Happy Hariraya!  Eidl Fitr Mubarak, everyone!  The blessed month of Ramadan is almost over and we can face the challenges of the year ahead with renewed hope, with a refreshed spirit. Summer is here and

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SHE TALKS PEACE: Women, Peace, and Security

QUEZON CITY (MindaNews / 10 April) — Have you been following the developments in Ukraine?  If so, you must be feeling horror, disbelief, amazement, and hope – all at the same time.  Those emotions described our state of mind as Dina Zaman

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SHE TALKS PEACE: Women and Power

QUEZON CITY (MindaNews / 03 April) — We assume that when a woman is in power, she will be a champion of women.  Do you, dear readers, think it is true?  Are women politicians automatically champions of women’s rights and empowerment? Dr.

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SHE TALKS PEACE: No one is born a terrorist

QUEZON CITY (MindaNews / 06 March) — “The crisis in Ukraine has exposed how the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) – once again – is divided as it fails to confront a pressing security challenge head on and through a

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SHE TALKS PEACE: Is Ukraine a Chess Pawn?

QUEZON CITY (MindaNews / 06 Feb) — What is going on in Ukraine?  Will Putin wage war soon?  Is Europe at risk of what essentially will be another world war?   Today on “She Talks Peace,” we had a first-hand look at the Ukrainian

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SHE TALKS PEACE: Whistleblowing

QUEZON CITY (MindaNews / 30 January) — What is a “whistleblower”?  The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines it as “one who reveals something covert or who informs against another especially: an employee who brings wrongdoing by an employer or by other employees to the attention

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SHE TALKS PEACE: Foundation of Autonomy

QUEZON CITY (MindaNews / 23 January)  — The  Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) celebrated its 3rd foundation anniversary last Friday. With the pandemic surging due to the highly infectious Omicron variant, the BARMM government held a low key program.  Chief Minister Ahod

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SHE TALKS PEACE: Unhappy New Year?

QUEZON CITY (MindaNews / 09 January) — Dear friends, I hope the holiday season has given you a break from worries – COVID, loss of income, depleted savings, political turmoil around the world.   You have probably saved up on joy and

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SHE TALKS PEACE: Wishes for 2022

QUEZON CITY (MindaNews / 26 December) — For those who escaped the wrath of Typhoon Odette which made landfall on December 16,  I hope you had a safe holiday with family and friends.  For our beleaguered kababayans who suffered the

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SHE TALKS PEACE: Islamic Feminism in Yemen

QUEZON CITY (MindaNews /19 December) — When I was in high school, we used to kid and ask “where do hippies come from?”  From “Yeah, men” of course.  That was my introduction, via a joke,  to the fascinating country that

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SHE TALKS PEACE: Do Muslims Believe in Mary?

QUEZON CITY (MindaNews / 05 December) — Recent events, with the victory of the Taliban in Afghanistan, have created a backlash of negative sentiment over Muslims and Islam in general.  Witness the Islamophobia exhibited by a few members of the

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SHE TALKS PEACE: Orange the World

QUEZON CITY (MindaNews / 28 November) — Did you know that there is a global campaign to end gender-based violence?  It seems that, years ago, civil society had initiated this annual global campaign from November 25, the International Day for

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SHE TALKS PEACE: Beauty and Activism

QUEZON CITY (MindaNews / 14 November) — Beauty does not have to be skin-deep only.  Take Gemma Cruz-Araneta, the first Filipina to win an international beauty pageant   (Miss International, 1964).  I was a kid when she won but I was

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PEACETALK: Man’s inhumanity to man

QUEZON CITY (MindaNews/17 Feb) — Last Wednesday’s congressional committee hearing on the botched Mamasapano police operation was painful to watch. Unlike the Senate hearings effectively chaired by Senator Grace Poe, the congressional hearing was raucous, emotional, and marred by grandstanding.

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PEACETALK: Dividends of Peace

(Amina Rasul, President of the Philippine Center for Islam and Democracy delivered this opening statement at the Media Roundtable on the Bangsamoro Basic Law, Faber Hall, Ateneo de Manila University, on September 22, 2014) First of all, allow me to

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COMMENTARY: The Sabah standoff

IN ANOTHER David and Goliath move, a hundred armed Tausugs, led by Rajah Mudah (crown prince) Agbimuddin Kiram are in Lahad Datu, Sabah and have captured the attention of the world to the sovereign and proprietary claims of the Sulu

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