Sabokahan

SABOKAHAN works for the genuine transformation of the Filipino society and global community by overcoming barriers that preclude women from being at the frontlines of the struggle for lumad women’s rights and dignity, land rights, self-determination, social justice, genuine peace and prop-people development.

Deeply rooted in the communities, Sabokahan works for the emancipation of lumad women from feudal and patriarchal traditions and practices. At the regional level, it represents the issues of lumad women in Mindanao. Sabokahan empowers lumad women through education, organizing, mobilization, capacity building, and community development work addressing economic and social injustices.

We also actively represent the voice of indigenous women in various campaigns, advocacy actions to advance women and indigenous peoples’ rights, human rights, economic justice, ecological justice and other causes that intersect with women’s issues.

Sabokahan Youth are continuing

the struggle for women and LGBTQ+ empowerment in the defense of land, livelihood, and self-determination, that our elders began.

#SavePantaron

“To all the Manobo and Lumad people, our resolve must remain unfaltering like the Pantaron on which generations of our people have lived and depended on for generations. We must prevail for as long as the causes of our oppression continue to persist and deny us of the right to live with dignity.”
- Bai Bibyaon Ligkayan Bigkay, Chair Emeritus of Sabokahan Unity of Lumad Women