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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
Este informe se elabora en el marco de la investigación impulsada por Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI) sobre detención y encarcelamiento de personas indígenas por ejercer y defender sus derechos, especialmente los vinculados con la libre determinación y..
The Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI) strongly condemns the brutal massacre carried out on 14 January 2026 against the Pastoral Mbororo Indigenous community in Gidado, Ntumbaw, Ndu Sub-Division, Donga-Mantung Division, in the North-West Region of Cameroon. According to..
