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Filipino women enforce village peace through sex strike, 2011

Country
Philippines
Time period
July, 2011 to July, 2011
Classification
Defense
Cluster
Peace
Total points
9 out of 10 points
Name of researcher, and date dd/mm/yyyy
Nancy Liu, 05/11/2011

Mindanao Island, the southern and second-largest island in the Philippines, has been the site of fighting and violence from a separatist movement since the 1970s. It is the only area of the Philippines with a significant Muslim population, and religious differences and widespread poverty has led to the rise of a separatist Islamist group called the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). MILF is a rebel organization formed in the 1960s that uses terrorist attacks and assassinations to fight against the Philippine government.