The main objective of the World Bank’s Indigenous Peoples Engagement Strategy is to enhance the visibility of IPs in the Philippines and increase awareness of the need to address their development ...

The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues expresses its grave concerns about the Philippine government’s accusation against indigenous human rights defenders as terrorist group ...

In the southern Philippines’ Misamis Oriental province, Indigenous Higaonon practice a forest management tradition known as panlaoy. Panlaoy requires immersion in the forest, with participants ...

The island of Mindanao in the Philippines is ringed by beaches and covered in volcanoes and gardens of exotic orchids. Mindanao has been home to the Indigenous Lumad peoples for centuries, but ...

Catholic bishops in the Philippines have appealed to the government to intensify efforts to protect the rights and dignity of indigenous people who suffer from land grabbing and discrimination. In an ...

Anne Mariae Celeste Jumadla of Sapalo Velez Bundang & Bulilan Law Offices discusses ways to protect the IP of indigenous peoples In response to the need to protect the cultural heritage of the ...

A group of some ten women stood away from everyone else in a corner of the church as Sunday Mass progressed in San Lorenzo parish, in the hilly tourist district of Loakan in the Philippines. The women ...

(New York) – Philippine authorities are using “red-tagging” and other forms of threats and violence to intimidate Indigenous leaders and activists opposed to government-backed projects in the ...

While some 300 members of Indigenous groups from the Philippines' Sierra Madre mountain range were on a nine-day, 148-kilometer protest march from Quezon province to metro Manila to stop a dam from ...

DUNOY, Philippines — In the dense, tropical rainforests of the Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park, an ancient predator drifts silently beneath the surface of still rivers. For Indigenous Agta elders, ...

The critically endangered Philippine crocodile (Crocodylus mindorensis) embodies strength and protective spirits for Indigenous Agta elders who are involved in efforts to rebrand the image of the ...