Peter Dupont

COME October 26, 2015, hundreds of lumad from Mindanao will converge at the UP Campus. When the 700 or so lumad from Mindanao decided to stage their kampuhan in UP Diliman until November 1, 2015 to dramatize the plight of their communities currently under siege from militarization, they could not have chosen a more apt venue. There is the impression that the campus grounds are safe haven to those who are politically persecuted given the long tradition of upholding and defending the principle of academic freedom by generations of activists and citizens of the Diliman Republic.

(UPDATE 2 - 2:15 p.m.) The barangay captain of White Culaman in Kitaotao town, Bukidnon made good on his threat to shut down a tribal school in the village, leading around a hundred residents who broke down the fence and ordered the staff and students to leave Friday morning.

This video depicts the real situation of Indigenous Peoples in military and paramilitary-infested communities in Km. 16, Han-ayan, Barangay Diatagon, Lianga,...

The Lumads (collective name of 18 indigenous groups in Mindanao) have been nominated to the 2015 Human Rights Award organized by Stop the Killings, an alliance of Belgian trade unions, cause-orient...

Numerous huge cargo vessels from China continue to steal soil and mineral resources in Mindanao. A report said that local authorities are blind and have done no

'Panalipod: A Fund Raising Concert for the Lumad Evacuees in Mindanao' was held Tuesday at the KOA Treehouse in Cebu City.

More indigenous people driven from homes in the Philippines. Displaced villagers allege harassment by soldiers