For the Marihangin Indigenous community in the Philippines, legal protection of their territory was meant to safeguard them against dispossession. In practice, the more than two-decade wait for recognition of their ancestral lands has coincided with escalating corporate..
May 14, 2026. Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI) welcomes the release of Indigenous Dumagat farmers Rocky Torres, 32, and Avelardo “Dandoy” Avellaneda, 54, on 9 May 2026 after nearly eight years of arbitrary detention in the Philippines. Their release brings long-awaited..
On February 28, 2021, Barangay Captain Julie Catamin who challenged the baseless red tagging of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the military was shot dead. Catamin is a member of the indigenous Tumandok community. He was among..
On July 12, 2021, the Regional Trial Court in Tagum City, capital of Davao del Norte – a province in Davao region in Mindanao Island at the south of the Philippines—rejected the criminal prosecution against the indigenous human..
Indigenous representatives and their lawyers file petition at the Supreme Court to junk the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020. (Photo: Tony La Viña) The Philippines has the most dismal government response to the pandemic in the Southeast Asian region.1..
(image from Defend Panay Network) ILOILO City – Recently, an RTC in Capiz quashed[1] multiple search warrants used by the PNP and the AFP in the bloody joint-operation on December 30 last year, that left 9 Tumandok dead,..
image from: https://twitter.com/nordisonline/status/1360040953549967362 BEATRICE BELEN: FIGHTING WITH UNWAVERING COURAGE Betty is an Indigenous woman leader from the Uma people in Lubuagan, Kalinga in the Cordillera region. A member of Innabuyog – An Alliance of Indigenous Women’s Organizations in the..
image from: https://kodao.org/teacher-rose-kabataang-guro-ng-mga-lumad/ ROSE HAYAHAY: DEFENDING INDIGENOUS RIGHTS THROUGH EDUCATION “Indigenous peoples want to study; they want to be educated. But they don’t have schools in their communities.” Rose Hayahay, a native of Davao de Oro, is a 23-year-old..
image from: https://www.facebook.com/whiteandblueslu/photos/sarah-dekdeken-secretary-general-of-cordillera-peoples-alliance/10162250560545387/ SARAH DEKDEKEN: CONTINUING FIGHT AMID ATTACKS “Land is life. Indigenous women will cease to exist if their lands and territories are destroyed. We were able to protect and nurture our lands, territories and resources for many..
Global Indigenous Peoples organization Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI) denounces the recent murder of Tumandok village chief Julie Catamin and the brutal attack against Angelo Karlo Guillen, one of the legal counsels of the Tumandok tribe members who..
