BANGSAMORO AUTONOMOUS REGION IN MUSLIM MINDANAO (21 January 2021) — On January 21, 2019, a historic plebiscite marked a major milestone under the political track of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), the landmark peace agreement signed between the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in 2014. (more…)
PASIG CITY (01 January 2022) – As the nation bids goodbye to 2021, the country’s peace agency also says farewell to its old name as it transitions from Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) to the Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation, and Unity (OPAPRU). (more…)
DAVAO CITY — In his inaugural address in 2016, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte assured the Filipino people that his “administration is committed to implement all signed peace agreements in step with constitutional and legal reforms.” (more…)
SULTAN KUDARAT, MAGUINDANAO — As the year ends, 5,250 Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) combatants have been decommissioned under the first part of the third phase of the decommissioning process. (more…)
PALAWAN (10 December 2021) — The National Task Force for the Disbandment of Private Armed Groups (NTF-DPAGs) has successfully disbanded 14 PAGs operating in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) and Region 12, exceeding its initial target of five PAGs for this year. (more…)
COTABATO CITY (8 December 2021) — The national government’s top peacemaker flew to this Central Mindanao city to meet with the region’s stakeholders and rally their continued support behind the Bangsamoro peace process and the observance of safe, orderly and peaceful elections next year. (more…)
This is in response to a post entitled “Bad Marks in COA Reports for OCD, OPAPP, DILG” that was published in the Facebook page of the Right to Know, Right Now! Coalition on Wednesday, November 3, 2021. (more…)
SULTAN KUDARAT, MAGUINDANAO (08 November 2021) — The COVID-19 pandemic has not stopped the Bangsamoro peace process from gaining momentum, as the third phase of decommissioning of 14,000 Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces (BIAF) combatants and their weapons kicked off here on Monday. (more…)
PASIG CITY (6 November 2021) – The national government remains optimistic in achieving its target of administering more than one million COVID-19 doses daily by employing different strategies to scale up the vaccination output of local government units.
Local leaders to pledge honest, peaceful elections
PASIG CITY (1 NOVEMBER 2021) — Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito G. Galvez, Jr. lauded President Rodrigo Roa Duterte for signing of Republic Act 11593 which postpones next year’s Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) elections. (more…)
