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The Manobo-Pulangiyon (MP) Indigenous Cultural Community (ICC), with around 1,490 family members, has endured over a century of land grabbing, beginning in the early 1900s when the Manolo Fortich family seized their ancestral lands, later transferring use to Kiantig Development Corporation (…)
The bells for justice have been ringing for years and have been ringing until today. The tri-people grassroots communities have aired in different venue and platforms the sad and challenging plight of the Non-Moro Indigenous Peoples (NMIP) in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (…)
With due respect, the September 9, 2024 Supreme Court (SC) unanimous Decision in Province of Sulu, et al. vs. Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdia, et al.takes away, with one hand, Sulu from the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) what it gives with the other hand, (…)
In 2018, the passage of the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) was a major milestone for peace building efforts in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). The BOL institutionalized Bangsamoro autonomy by creating the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) as BARMM’s interim (…)
Various human rights and governance experts warned that Bill 273 contain provisions that go against the spirit and the letter of the Constitution and indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA), the national law on indigenous people’s rights in the Philippines.
At the Manila leg of the public (…)
• In this abnormal condition, normal ways are not enough!
• Transform the Economic, Political and Social Constructs to combat fast-rising global temperature
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration’s (PAGASA) Climate Monitoring and Prediction Section (…)
“As Bangsamoros, we are as equally invested as our fellow Filipinos in actively participating in the discussion of constitutional reforms.” Thus said Bangsamoro Parliament (BP) Deputy Speaker Omar Yasser Sema, a second-generation member of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), who earlier (…)
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – A labor group here cited the additional pay for workers, but it still hoped that the government would approve a higher wage increase, as it said that the upcoming implementation of the P33 minimum wage hike in the region this year is “still inadequate.”
Lawyer Doris (…)
On December 3, 2023, an Islamist bombing occurred during a Catholic Mass at the gymnasium of the Mindanao State University in Marawi, Philippines, killing four people. Our correspondent in the region presents an initial attempt to contextualize what is happening there.
It has been several (…)
Indigenous Peoples rights is not anti-development, we badly need appropriate development that promotes our welfare and sustainably uplifts our lives, not development aggression that tramples our rights legally recognized by National, Regional and International Laws.
Logo Credit: Santos Magay (…)
Republic Act No. 8371 also known as the Indigenous Peoples Rights of 1997 (IPRA) is a landmark legislation to correct the historical injustices sustained by the IPs for centuries.
The Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) provides that, "This Organic Law shall not in any manner diminish the rights and (…)
Netizens are circulating a fake quote card of Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) Interior and Local Government Minister Atty. Naguib Sinarimbo supposedly saying Christians do not have a place in Marawi.
It is a fabricated statement that spread on Dec. 3, the day a bomb (…)
We, the Network Opposed to War (NO to War) – Palestine Solidarity Pilipinas in Mindanao condemn to the highest degree this terrorist act of bombing that occurred during the First Sunday Catholic Mass inside the Dimaporo Gymnasium of Mindanao State University, Marawi Campus on December 3, 2023 (…)
(3rd UPDATE) The explosion occurs while a group, mainly students, gather for a Mass at the Mindanao State University’s Dimaporo Gym.
COTABATO, Philippines – At least four people were killed while some 45 others were hurt as an explosion ripped through a gym at the state-run Mindanao State (…)
On the island of Mindanao, in the south of the Philippine archipelago, the creation in 2019 of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) was a particularly significant event in the country’s history. It marked the end of decades of conflict over recognition of the right to (…)
OPEN STATEMENT OF THE TIMUAY JUSTICE AND GOVERNANCE (TJG) ON THE ALARMING SITUATION OF THE HOPELESS TËDURAY AND LAMBANGIAN NON-MORO INDIGENOUS PEOPLES (NMIPS) IN SOME VILLAGES OR SITIOS OF BARANGAY BIARONG, SOUTH UPI MAGUINDANAO DEL SUR WHO ARE AFFECTED BY THE MORO CLAN FEUD WHO SETTLED IN THE (…)
On 23 May it will have been six years since the Maute group waved the Islamic State (IS) flag over the Islamic city of Marawi in the Philippines. The Maute group was a radical militant group, led by brothers and former Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) members Omar and Abdullah Maute. (…)
We, in the Task Force Barat , a formation of Tëduray, Lambangian and Mënubo Dulangan Indigenous Political Structures (IPS), Indigenous Peoples Organizations (IPOs) and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), view the Typhoon Paeng tragedy, affecting 1,730 Tëduray, Lambangian and Mënubo Dulangan (…)
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 10 November) – Tëduray leaders and survivors on Thursday welcomed Senator Robinhood Padilla’s resolution seeking an investigation into the alleged forced relocation of the Tëdurays in December 2020 to a relocation site in Kusiong, Datu Odin Sinsuat in Maguindanao del (…)
MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Robinhood Padilla is pushing for a Senate investigation into the alleged “forced relocation” of the Teduray people to a site hit by a landslide during the onslaught of Severe Tropical Storm “Paeng.”
Citing a report by the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Padilla said (…)
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