In commemoration of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, Focus on the Global South, presents the video documentary, “Sulagad: Our Life, Our Future”
Sulagad is the indigenous concept on food sovereignty and agroecology realized by the Téduray and the Lambangian indigenous (...)
Indigenous peoples demanding reopening of schools for tribes’ kids bring coffin to DepEd door.
FOR REAL The coffin of “lumad” leader Pakingan Gantangan sits at the main door of the Department of Education office in Koronadal City.—BONG S. SARMIENTO
KORONADAL CITY — “Lumad” demanding the reopening (...)
The Cagayan de Oro City commute was an invitation to the unfamiliar. We cut our way short. We passed through Dominorog in Talakag, Bukidnon and its dusty, unpaved road with almost no people idling by. On a huge tarpaulin was a command: “Support federalism and martial law in Mindanao.” The words (...)
Non-Moro IP Provisions in Senate Bill 1717 and House Bill 6475:
Compliant to FAB-CAB and the 1987 Philippine Constitution
The two versions of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) —Senate Bill 1717 and House Bill 6475 have been met with diverse reactions from different stakeholders in the Bangsamoro (...)
We, the twenty-six (26) members of the Council and peace panel of the Independent Indigenous Peoples’ Voice (IIP Voice) coming from different tribes of the Indigenous Peoples of Mindanao strongly condemned the spate of killings directed towards our ranks. In the Municipality of Arakan, North (...)
Indigenous spiritual leaders prepare the altar for the ritual for peace and justice at Brgy. Emamaling, Magpet, North Cotabato.
At the foot of Mt. Apo, the silence of the early morning was broken by the chants of the baylans who led the prayers in a ritual held in Brgy. Emamaling, Magpet, (...)
A briefer on Mt Firis and its value to the Teduray and Lambangian tribes in Maguindanao province collated by Alim M. Bandara in 2012. Alim Bandara is currently a member of the Council of Leaders (Minted Sa Inged) and formerly the Supreme Chief (Timuay Labi) of the Timuay Justice and Governance. (...)
Talaingod Manobos: Indigenous people seek peace after attacks
Davao Del Norte, Philippines - Up on the verdant mountains of Talaingod, a young pig squeals as four men grab its legs and a freshly sharpened bolo readies to slash its throat.
Dahosay Ansam-on, 77, utters a prayer to the (...)
Timuay Ronaldo Ambangan (second from right) holds the white rooster that will be offered in a ritual for another year of peace in the indigenous community of Aroman, Carmen, Cotabato.
“Do not bring your wars in our lands. Leave our ancestral domain”. This is the impassioned message of Timuay (...)
The Independent Indigenous Peoples’ Voice (IPVoice) is an autonomous body of 21 Mindanao Lumad tribes that pursues the indigenous peoples’ peace agenda to the peace processes between the government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) as well as the Communist Party of (...)
Declaration in the Occasion of the Indigenous Peoples Leaders’ Conference on the Independent Voice in the Peace Processes October 27-29, 2016
Cotabato City
We, the tribes of Indigenous Peoples or Lumad in Mindanao celebrating the 19th year of the implementation of the Indigenous Peoples (...)
INDIGENOUS groups will soon be represented in the body tasked to draft the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) as part of President Rodrigo Duterte administration’s commitment to ending decades-old conflict in Mindanao, a Cabinet official said Wednesday, October 26.
Presidential Peace Adviser (...)
IPs demand Independent Voice in the Peace Processes
The current administration of Pres. Rodrigo Duterte’s thrust is to continue with the peace processes with the different non-state actors. This is a very positive development for Mindanao. However, for the indigenous peoples, this doesn’t (...)
IP struggle for Identity and Territory Consistent, Even Without Arms, says Lumad.
Manila – “Our struggle to assert our rights as Teduray to our identity and territory has started long before the MILF-GPH peace talks, and we have been very consistent about this,” says Jennevieve Cornelio, a (...)
Timuay Alim Bandara is a member of Minted sa Inged (Supreme Council) of the Timuay Justice and Governance (TJG). He is also the head petitioner in the Teduray and Lambangian Unified Ancestral Domains Claim.
The burning issue between and among IP leaders on the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law, (...)
Statement of Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa-Mindanao/Revolutionary Peoples’ Army on the IP Killings in Maguindanao, Mindanao
In their quest for the realization of the democratic rights over their ancestral domains, Indigenous Peoples inside the core area of the proposed Bangsamoro (...)
ALLIANCE OF TRI-PEOPLE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS (ALTAHR)
and
ALYANSA NG MAMAMAYAN PARA SA KARAPATANG PANTAO (AMKP) STATEMENT of CONCERN
Stop the Killings of the Lumads Now, Uphold Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Justice!
The recent development of the Peace Talks between the (...)
MANILA, Philippines — At least 19 clans belonging to the Teduray and Lambangian tribes of Maguindanao province are demanding an end to what they call “illegal mining exploration” in their communities.
The clans have also asked government agencies, among these the National Commission on Indigenous (...)
CSO Fact-Finding Mission to the Ancestral Domains of Teduray-Lambangian in Maguindanao Province
6-7 September 2014
Kilusang Maralita sa Kanayunan (KILOS KA) – Maguindanao and Cotabato Cluster
and
Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center, Incorporated – Kasama sa Kalikasan/Friends of the (...)
MANILA, Philippines — (UPDATE - 10:53 a.m.) Another leader of the Teduray in Maguindanao was murdered Friday morning, little more than a month after a chieftain of the tribe was gunned down in the province.
According to information from the Mindanao Peoples’ Peace Movement, Melencio Ramugon, a (...)
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