The bill seeking to provide Muslims and Indigenous Peoples (IPs) equal access to public cemeteries that predominantly hold Christian beliefs has gained a traction in the Senate. This after Senate minority leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III expressed his support to Senate Bill No....
Camiguin lone district Rep. Jurdin Jesus “JJ” Romualdo (Romualdo’s Facebook page) Camiguin lone district Rep. Jurdin Jesus “JJ” Romualdo recommended a meager budget of P1,000 for the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) over concerns...
DAVAO CITY – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is expanding its Resilient Livelihoods Development (RLD) project to the Indigenous Peoples (IP) communities in the mountainous town of South Upi in Maguindanao del Sur. Lionel Dabbadie, FAO representative in the...
DAVAO CITY – As police have yet to solve the killing of South Upi, Maguindanao del Sur Vice Mayor Roland Benito almost two months ago, another Indigenous Peoples leader was gunned down in Barangay Bongo in South Upi on Tuesday, September 17. MOIRES (Keith Bacongco) Police identified the victim as...
Senator Loren Legarda on Friday, August 16 emphasized anew the importance of indigenous communities in the very survival of the country’s ecosystem. In her privilege speech delivered on the occasion of National Indigenous Peoples Day, Legarda highlighted the importance of the indigenous...
President Marcos has pledged to respond to the needs of Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines in order to help them in preserving their way of life. "Drawing from our genuine desire to provide them the honor they rightfully deserve, the government reassures its high regard for the indigenous...
DAVAO CITY – Various Indigenous Peoples (IP) have urged the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) to pass an IP Code that truly reflects the aspirations of IPs in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). TEDURAY farmers work in their community farm in South Upi, Maguindanao...
DAVAO CITY – At least 80 Indigenous Peoples were taken to hospitals after they suffered severe stomach pain and vomiting after consuming a native delicacy during a tribal wedding in remote Barangay Pandan, South Upi, Maguindanao del Sur on Thursday, April 25. Dr. Rose Leah Jerusalem,...
SOUTH UPI, Maguindanao del Sur – Teduray farmer Alan Olubalang could still remember how his grandparents scoured the forests of this mountainous town just to find the indigenous crop known as “kayos” at the height of the dry spell in 1998. MANILYN Elon shows freshly picked 'kayos' in Barangay...
ILOILO CITY – The Ati Indigenous Peoples (IPs) tribe is pleading after they were recently displaced from a disputed land at world-famous Boracay Island in Malay town, Aklan province. ATI children play on the white-sand beach of Boracay Island in Malay, Aklan. (Tara Yap) "This land is ours....
The Philippine Sports Commission is set to hold the Luzon leg of the Indigenous Peoples (IP) Games in Salcedo, Ilocos Sur on April 19-20. (From left to right) IP project head Elias Samorin, PSC commissioner Fritz Gaston and PSA president Nelson Beltran The PSC, which has been organizing the...
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...
