Encouraged by this outlook, activists in the National Rural Women Coalition, backed by Oxfam, are working to ensure the peace deal recognises indigenous womens roles, said secretary-general Daryl Leyesa. Village women traditionally acted as arbiters of domestic and community disputes, for example, and this function must be allowed to continue under the new dispensation, she said. theguardian/world/2013/feb/13/filipino-women-mindanao-conflict
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