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Companies urged to embrace equality and diversity

01 September 2017 Sun Star Davao

International Alert, Mindanao Business Council, and Team Energy Foundation Inc. jointly launched Red Flags campaign, a set of practical guidelines to help companies ensure equal access to employment, safe spaces, and sustainable careers for their employees regardless of religious or ethnic identity.

Tags: Red Flags

Group prods business: embrace equality and diversity in the workplace

30 August 2017 Business Mirror Alladin Diega

Establishing a clear workplace culture enhances the employee experience, helping them become actively engaged in preserving that culture and using it to positively promote the organization to others.

Tags: Red Flags

Discrimination a hurdle for job-seeking Mindanao youth

30 August 2017 Rappler Patty Pasion

A conflict monitoring group launches a set of guidelines that seeks to end discrimination on the basis of ethnic and religious belief.

Tags: Red Flags

Red Flags’ aim to check discrimination in the workplace

30 August 2017 Inquirer Yara Lukman

International Alert Philippines launched a set of guidelines, “Red Flags on Equality and Diversity in the Workplace,” which aims to check discrimination in the workplace.

Tags: Red Flags

Mindanaoan youth: ‘We want just and lasting peace’

13 August 2017 Rappler Raisa Serafica

Tags: Women and Youth

Philippine crackdown on illegal guns sought

10 August 2017 UCAN

A global peace network called on the Philippines to take advantage of martial law in Mindanao “to get rid of illegal guns” and reduce the possibility of them being recycled.’’

Tags: Shadow Economies

Philippines: Death Toll in Marawi Fighting Tops 700

09 August 2017 Benar News Jeoffrey Maitem and Froilan Gallardo

Vicious fighting in the southern Philippine city of Marawi entered its 79th day with the death toll topping 700, as government troops kept battling on Wednesday to push out Islamic State-backed militants, officials said.

Tags: Shadow Economies

Duterte urged to strengthen gun control to stop terrorism

09 August 2017 Manila Times Mary Gleefer F. Jalea

A non-government organization focused on “peace building” has called on President Rodrigo Duterte to strengthen arms control in the wake of the proliferation of illegal guns that helped Islamist insurgents to wage war against the government in the southern Philippines.

Tags: Shadow Economies

TV Patrol: Mga baril na nakukumpiska ng pulis, saannapupunta?

08 August 2017 ABS-CBN TV Patrol News Jorge Carino

International Alert Philippines pushes for the ceation of an agency esponsible for the destruction of illegal firearms

Tags: Shadow Economies

In the aftermath of the Marawi Crisis and with Martial Law, what to do with illicit guns?

04 August 2017 Business World Online Ed Quitoriano

In the 2013 International Alert study (Out of the Shadows: Violent Conflict and the Real Economy in Mindanao), it is argued that the shadow economy in illicit guns is not completely outside the administrative and political reach of the state.

Tags: Shadow Economies

Group of Moro youths not supporting martial law extension

25 July 2017 SunStar Davao Bomie Lane S. Castillo

"The demographics of Sulu have always been a combination of people with different religious and cultural backgrounds. Christians, Muslim, Chinese, Tausugs. These people have never identified themselves according to these divides," she said.

Tags: Women and Youth

Anti-discrimination guidelines for firms

28 June 2017 Sunstar Christine Joice C. Cudis

International Alert Philippines launched guidelines for companies to help check the prevalence of discrimination in the workplace.

Tags: Red Flags

International Alert calls on congress to pass measure against discrimination

28 June 2017 MindaNews Antonio Colina IV

Human rights advocacy group International Alert-Philippines is calling on Congress to pass an anti-discrimination measure that seeks to protect rights of the Muslim and indigenous people (IP) minorities in the workplace and enable them to access better opportunities in companies.

Tags: Red Flags

DUTERTE YEAR ONE | The good, the bad, and the uncertain

26 June 2017 InterAksyon Camille A. Aguinaldo

Political analyst Tony La Viña said Duterte’s linking of terrorism and drugs was not new, citing studies in Mindanao about the relationship between the two by scholar Francisco “Pancho” Lara, country manager of International Alert Philippines.

Tags: Others

ANC Early Edition interview and corresponding article: ‘Narco-terrorism’ possible in Marawi conflict, says analyst

22 June 2017 ABS-CBN News Channel

Prof. Rufa Cagoco-Guiam of the Mindanao State University in General Santos City said a study they did shows strong links of illegal drugs, politics, and violent conflicts in Mindanao, particularly in Lanao del Sur and Maguindanao.

Tags: Shadow Economies

Our long hot summer of terror

08 June 2017 Business World Francisco J. Lara, Jr.

With the violence in Marawi and more violent extremist groups emerge, what is needed is to create programs to empower the Moro youth, create new and stricter laws that would punish discrimination, and stregthen social cohesion accompanied by military actions.

Tags: Others

COMMENTARY: Addressing challenges posed by the Abu Sayyaf Group (6): The Shadow Economy

25 May 2017 MindaNews Vic M. Taylor

In the ARMM the shadow economy is the REAL economy. (We need to thank Francisco Lara Jr. of International Alert for undertaking the ground-breaking studies on this sector in Mindanao).

Tags: Shadow Economies

Talks with Reds tackle land confiscation

23 May 2017 Rappler Carmela Fonbuena

Land reform is at the heart of talks to end Asia's longest running communist insurgency. Negotiators of the government and the National Democratic Front (NDF) have agreed to distribute land for free – meaning the government will shoulder the cost of acquiring properties that will be distributed to landless farmers.

Tags: Bangsamoro

Shadow economies' may affect peace talks with Reds, analyst says

26 April 2017 ABS-CBN News Channel ABS-CBN News

According to Francisco Lara, country manager of International Alert Philippines, shadow economies in the Philippines may affect ongoing peace talks between the Duterte administration and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines

Tags: Bangsamoro

Duterte threatens anew communists, Abu Sayyaf: You want me to be an animal?

24 April 2017 Business World Online Lucia Edna P. de Guzman, with Ian Nicolas P. Cigaral

International Alert Philippines Country Manager Francisco J. Lara, Jr. said the cease-fire has led to an environment that allows “indigenous people and businessmen to return.” To be sure, the truce was terminated last February but both sides are continuing the negotiations.

Tags: Bangsamoro