The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has opposed the transfer of the Ancestral Domains Office (ADO) of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).In a statement, the CHR said the proposed transfer of ADO with a new name...
Senator Loren Legarda has filed a resolution seeking a Senate inquiry into the reported killings and acts of violence against Non-Moro Indigenous Peoples (NMIPs) in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). Legarda initiated the move following the brutal killing of...
DAVAO CITY – The Indigenous People’s group Timuay Justice and Governance hopes that the processing of their application for the Certificate of Ancestral Domain Title would finally move forward after the recent signing of the Memorandum of Agreement between the National Commission on...
Two members of the Teduray Lambangian Indigenous Peoples tribe were killed in an ambush in Datu Hoffer Ampatuan, Maguindanao del Sur on Thursday afternoon.The fatalities were identified as Cita Angan, 39, and Ricky Tapioc, 30, residents of Barangay Mantao, Ampatuan.Angan was the wife of tribal...
DAVAO CITY – An Indigenous Peoples (IPs) rights advocacy group is seeing an increase in human rights violations against IPs across the country in the coming years amid the global boom on mining and development of renewable energy projects.INDIGENOUS women pound corn using a traditional method in...
Sen. Robinhood "Robin" C. Padilla has filed a bill seeking to provide Indigenous Peoples (IPs) a bigger share of revenues generated from natural resources within the territories of indigenous cultural communities.Padilla, who chairs the Senate Committee on Cultural Communities and Muslim Affairs,...
President Marcos has transferred the supervision of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to the Office of the President (OP).(Photo courtesy of NCIP)The transfer was made through Executive Order No. 71 (EO 71) dated Oct....
A member of an Indigenous People's group was gunned down in Cotabato City on Monday, October 7.Police identified the victim as Jun Quimbo, 40, of Barangay Darugao, North Upi, Maguindanao del Norte.Investigation said Quimbo was with his wife and daughter at the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’...
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 – 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,...
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 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...
