In the northern Paraguayan Chaco, three Ayoreo leaders are facing criminal charges after being accused by the National Emergency Secretariat (SEN) in the context of the unjust and insufficient state response to a drought and forest fires that..
Year: 2026
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 villages have long been subjected to militarization, forced displacement, harassment, and a climate of constant fear. This militarization is closely tied to government..
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..
Indigenous leadership is essential to climate action. Here’s why.
At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, over 3,000 Indigenous representatives gathered alongside world leaders to shape the global climate agenda. At the center was Joan Carling, a lifelong human rights activist from the Cordillera region of the Philippines, who..
Compulsory Land Acquisition for Oil Project violates Indigenous Peoples´ rights and risks their future
The Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI) expresses its solidarity with the Indigenous Turkana Peoples of Kenya, whose rights to their lands and territories, culture, health, and self-determination are under severe threat due to an ongoing process of compulsory..
