Letter with full list of signatures here 8 Years of Arbitrary Detention: Demand the Immediate Release of Indigenous Peoples’ Prisoners in the Philippines The Example of Rocky and Dandoy In Quezon Province in the Philippines, Indigenous Dumagat..
Month: March 2026
Voices behind bars: State terror and weaponization of law against Indigenous Peoples
By Panaghiusa Philippine Network to Uphold Indigenous Peoples’ Rights The Philippines is home to an estimated 14–17 million Indigenous Peoples, whose communities span the archipelago from the Cordillera in the north to Mindanao in the south. Despite constitutional..
Je’eruriwa People: the struggle for full recognition and the right to land despite forced displacement in Colombia
In May 2025, the Colombian Constitutional Court issued a landmark ruling recognizing the Je’eruriwa People as a subject of collective reparation and ordering their immediate inclusion in the Unified Registry of Victims, after more than 70 years of..
They won in court, but are still being evicted: the Ogiek struggle for justice in Kenya
For generations, the Ogiek Indigenous Peoples have lived in Kenya’s Mau Forest Complex and in parts of Mount Elgon and the surrounding highlands, sustaining themselves through hunting, gathering, and beekeeping, and governing their territories through customary systems rooted..
IPRI Annual Report 2025
When Indigenous defenders are criminalized and subjected to violence, the objective is not justice. The objective is silence, intimidation, collective punishment, and dispossession. Criminalization and violence are designed to wear down Indigenous defenders and communities quietly until resistance..
Four years detained for defending her people in the Philippines
The story of Lumad-Manobo defender Julieta Gomez on International Women’s Day Julieta Gomez spent nearly four years in detention after being accused of crimes that Philippine courts later dismissed for lack of evidence. A Lumad-Manobo Indigenous rights defender..
In a historic ruling for the Mazatec community of Eloxochitlán, Oaxaca, the Federal Court confirms Miguel Peralta’s innocence of all accusations and determines the non-existence of a key crime.
Different geographies, March 2, 2026. On February 25 of this year, the sentence issued by the First Collegiate Tribunal in Criminal Matters of Oaxaca in the Amparo Directo 631/2022 was published, which absolved Miguel Peralta Betanzos of all..
