 In the Cordilleras, or in the Philippines in general, many of the deposits of the minerals are in indigenous communities and territories, and the Philippines is very much rich in mineral resources. It ranks number five in the global deposit of gold, nickel, and also copper. So you can just imagine, you know, the intuition of multinational mining companies trading investments coming in to wanting, you know, to have a piece of these resources. As we all know, the Philippines is, the government, both from the local to the national levels, are quite corrupt, and they'd rather favor, you know, the interests of the mining companies and trading investment rather than to protect and promote the rights of its people, particularly indigenous communities. In, you know, indigenous women have organized themselves to resist and defend, you know, the resources that they have. In many cases, extractivism or resource extraction is accompanied and supported by strong or heavy militarization in the communities. Pretty much, we see the intrusion of military forces as well as paramilitary forces in these communities. In fact, the Philippine government has legalized, you know, the use of paramilitary forces to secure and defend, you know, the rights of the investors. There is an executive order number 79, which is called the Investment Defense Force, that is primarily created to, you know, to provide security to these companies. The other, the other activities or strategies that, you know, the military in collaboration or in groups with companies is using and getting into the communities and softening the hearts and minds of the people in their resistance against, you know, these companies coming in, causing food, well, the loss of food resources, the loss of livelihoods, in many cases, displacement of communities. They, you know, how do you say that? They tried to, not only that they tried, but they established relationship, sexual relationship with indigenous women in the communities and when their time, you know, or their assignment is that the women are left with children. The other one is they use rape and coercion to get, you know, the, not the support, but to be able to get into the communities and many of these indigenous communities are not able to defend themselves because they don't have them yet. So given the situation, not only, well, indigenous women in relationship and also in partnership with the women in the Philippines and in Asia, particularly, you know, in the regional level, they put up one is the International Indigenous People's Movement for Self-Determination and Liberation. There is a very active network of women in mining in the region and there's also the Asia-Pacific women and law and development that looks into, you know, supporting the struggles of women through law or using, you know, legal means and the courts. What Beverly would want to, I guess, to emphasize in this conversation in this forum is one that international solidarity and building relations among and between affected communities should be strengthened and that we should all be supporting the call for solidarity, particularly those communities that are heavily militarized. I also would like to emphasize the fact that in this forum, the World Social Forum and other international conversations, not many indigenous women are able to participate because they come from remote communities, they don't have the means, the funds to be able to travel and the restrictions, the border restrictions that Jennifer mentioned, the visa restrictions further, you know, marginalizes and silenced the voice of this organized and resisting group of women.