Igorot UK

Celebrating the resilience, achievements and power of women everywhere!!
May you continue to break barriers, follow your dreams, and inspire future generations of women!!
Give a smile, a hug, a toast, an inspiring greeting, a THANK YOU to your mother, wife, daughter, sister, grandmother, aunties, girlfriend and to all the women around you!🙌🏼🙏🏼🤩

Happy International Women’s Day!🙌🏼🌟🌟🎉❤️🤩😍

Happy International Women's Day!

Message from UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous, 8 March 2026

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We have never been so close to achieving gender equality, and never closer to losing it.

Today, stronger laws exist on domestic violence. More girls are in school than ever before. Women’s movements are more connected, more visible, and more crucial than ever before.

And yet, this is also a moment of contradiction.

Violence is rising, including online. Backlash is organized and well resourced. Rights are being reversed in real time and at unprecedented speed. Impunity is spreading, in homes, online, and in conflicts.

International Women’s Day 2026, under the theme Rights. Justice. Action for All Women and Girls, must be our collective turning point.

We must stand up, show up, and speak up, for rights, justice, action, so all women and girls can live safely, speak freely, and exist equally.

UN Women was built for this moment. From crisis zones to courtrooms, from the grassroots to global power.

We stand with women and girls when rights are denied, justice is delayed, and violence is ignored. We support women’s movements. We stand with all survivors of violence, everywhere, always. We push laws, systems, and institutions to deliver for women and girls.

Today, I urge you, for ALL women and girls – to act:

Break the silence.

Demand rights and justice.

Defend the rule of law.

Fund women’s rights movements.

End impunity.

Deliver equality, in laws, in life, everywhere.

Friends, nothing can and nothing will stop us until the equal rights of all women and girls are realized.

Happy International Women’s Day!

Igorot UK was founded in September 1995, evolving from BIBAK UK, which was established by Igorot pioneers between 1991 and 1995. As the Igorot diaspora in the United Kingdom continued to grow, these pioneers were guided by a simple yet powerful vision: to ensure that future generations of Igorots would know who they are and take pride in their cultural heritage. The community expanded, the need for a more unified and culturally rooted diaspora organisation became clear. Igorot UK was formed to bring the community together and to serve as a platform for preserving identity, fostering unity, and strengthening cultural ties among Igorots living in the UK.

In the past three decades, Igorot UK has played a leading role in promoting and preserving Igorot culture and heritage across the United Kingdom. While building a diaspora community comes with challenges, the organisation has remained committed to its founding objectives. Its members continue to support initiatives that promote unity, cultural education, celebrate cultural identity, and strengthen connections within the wider Igorot community.

In September 2020, Igorot UK was officially registered as a charity. Today, it still remains true to the vision of its founders—working to inspire, support, and empower Igorots in UK, and the future generations of Igorots in the United Kingdom.🙏🏼🙌🏼❤️

(Referenced from the reflections and messages of the past presidents of Igorot UK, 30th Foundation Day & 18th Grand Cañao, “Weaving Unity, Embracing Connections”, Sept. 2025.)