{"id":13339,"date":"2013-12-27T01:43:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T00:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=13339"},"modified":"2013-12-27T01:43:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T00:43:35","slug":"women-in-philippines-unlock-300b-in-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/women-in-philippines-unlock-300b-in-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in Philippines Unlock $300B in Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of the more than a dozen women Philippine President <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.bloomberg.com\/benigno-aquino\/\">Benigno Aquino<\/a> appointed to senior administration posts since gaining power in June 2010, one of the most diplomatically sensitive was Miriam Coronel-Ferrer.<\/p>\n<p>Coronel-Ferrer\u2019s credentials for the position of chief negotiator with rebels from the embattled island of Mindanao were excellent: A member of the peace panel since 2010, she was a political-science professor at the University of the Philippines in Quezon City near <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.bloomberg.com\/manila\/\">Manila<\/a> and an advocate of a negotiated settlement for more than a decade. The problem was whether her gender would be an issue with the rebels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not anti-women, but is your counterpart ready?\u201d Coronel-Ferrer, 54, recalls Aquino saying. At that time, the all-male team of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, or MILF, assured Aquino it would accept anyone he appointed.<\/p>\n<p>Success after four decades of conflict would help reintegrate the Muslim-majority region with the largely Catholic nation and boost incentives for investment in an estimated $300 billion of minerals and resources. Failure would risk a resurgence of fighting that has cost as many as 200,000 lives. Coronel-Ferrer has won agreements in the past year on the key issues of wealth- and power-sharing and aims for a final accord with the biggest rebel group in talks scheduled for next month. \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Women-Unlock-300-Billion-in-Resources-in-the-Phillipines.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Women Unlock 300 Billion in Resources in the Phillipines<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/women-in-philippines-unlock-300b-in-resources\/islam-rebels-in-philippines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13341\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13341\" alt=\"Islam Rebels in Philippines\" src=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Islam-Rebels-in-Philippines-300x198.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Islam-Rebels-in-Philippines-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Islam-Rebels-in-Philippines-453x300.jpg 453w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Islam-Rebels-in-Philippines.jpg 752w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the more than a dozen women Philippine President Benigno Aquino appointed to senior administration posts since gaining power in June 2010, one of the most diplomatically sensitive was Miriam Coronel-Ferrer. Coronel-Ferrer\u2019s credentials for the position of chief negotiator with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/women-in-philippines-unlock-300b-in-resources\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurs","category-finance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13343,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13339\/revisions\/13343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}