Energy access is a major game-changer in empowering a country – but the depressing fact remains that more than a billion people globally still don’t have access to electricity services – a basic need that marginal segments of populations – or those in the ‘laylayan’ are morally being...
Despite financial constraints and challenges, Jeraldyn Bansale, a former monitored child from the Bajau indigenous community in Leyte, graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) degree. Jeraldyn Bansale, a former monitored child from the Bajau indigenous community in...
Sen. Robinhood Padilla has filed a resolution urging the Senate to look into the complaints of Cuyunon Indigenous Peoples (IPs) in relation to the renewal of Malampaya Service Contract No. 38. According to Padilla, the Senate investigation will zero in on the alleged disenfranchisement of...
DAVAO CITY – At least 300 Lambangian and Teduray indigenous peoples and migrant settlers staged a protest in Timanan, South Upi, Maguindanao del Sur on December 7 opposing the proposed declaration of a mineral reservation site within the tribe’s ancestral domain claim. INDIGENOUS peoples...
ILOILO CITY – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has awarded the livelihood program that benefited Indigenous Peoples (IP) as the construction of the Iloilo mega dam project is ongoing. CONSTRUCTION ongoing at the Jalaur High Dam, one of the three dams being built in Calinog town,...
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has started its own investigation on the alleged abduction of three activists involved in espousing the rights of indigenous peoples (IPs) in Oriental Mindoro. Based on report of Karapatan, a group of human rights advocates, CHR said that Alia Encela, 19; Job...
BACOLOD CITY – A member of the Indigenous Peoples (IP) was installed as a new member of the municipal council of Isabela, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, October 4. National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) Commissioner Jeorge Largado said Teresita Sinceda is the first representation...
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) said it is high time for the government to resolve expeditiously the issues of poverty and inequality being suffered by the members of the indigenous cultural communities (ICCs) in the country. It said the problems could be resolved with the immediate passage...
ILOILO CITY – Inclement weather did not stop the mass wedding of six couples from the Ati indigenous peoples (IPs) group in Tigbauan town, Iloilo province on Monday, July 17. (https://images.mb.com.ph/production/mb-mkt-neo-prod-1-uploads/ATI_WEDDING_ef61e7f28c/ATI_WEDDING_ef61e7f28c.jfif) SIX Ati...
ILOILO CITY – The Nagpana Minorities Association from the Ati indigenous peoples (IPs) tribe in Barotac Viejo town, Iloilo province has received a P200,000 livelihood aid from the Department of Tourism (DOT). THE Department of Tourism turns over a P200,000 livelihood assistance to boost the...
CAMP RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – Police Regional Office-13 chief Police Brig. Gen. Pablo G. Labra II was named “Datu Makalunhaw” which means “freer and savior from oppression” by chieftains and sectoral datus from different tribes in the Caraga region in a ceremony at the PRO-13...
Indigenous people in Pampanga have benefitted from the Department of Information and Communications Technology’s five-day information and digital literacy training held in March. As part of its goal to end the digital divide, DICT has conducted another digital literacy training. This time, it was...
