2. October 2023 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, Indigenous People
Following the abductions of Gene de Jesus and Dexter Capuyan on April 28, 2023, the Philippine National Police (PNP) has denied allegations that they are responsible for the enforced disappearances of the two Cordillera activists. De Jesus and Capuyan have been...
22. May 2023 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, Indigenous People
April 2023 saw the murder of labour rights activist Alex Dolorosa and the disappearance of two activists, struggling for indigenous rights, Gene Roz Jamil de Jesus and Bontoc-Ibaloi-Kankanaey Dexter Capuyan. Alex Dolorosa was found dead with 15 stab wounds in Bacolod...
20. March 2023 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, Indigenous People
A group of over 300 indigenous peoples (IPs) started on February 15, 2023, a nine-day protest march against the construction of the Kaliwa Dam from General Nakar in Quezon province to the Malacañang Palace. Only a part of the indigenous groups had accepted...
5. May 2022 | Human Rights News, Indigenous People
On April 19, 2022, 500 members of the indigenous Manobo-Tulangiyon community were set to re-possess an area of their ancestral lands in Bukidnon when they were shot by alleged security guards of the agri-business corporation Kiantig Development Corporation (KDC), who...
14. April 2022 | Human Rights News, Indigenous People, Internal Affairs
26 of the previous 37 petitioners filed another joint motion for partial reconsideration of the highly contested Anti-Terrorism Act before the Supreme Court (SC) on March 2, 2022. The SC dismissed their last petitions on December 7, 2021 and ruled the law only...
23. November 2021 | Human Rights News, Indigenous People, Internal Affairs
For months, criticism of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) and calls to abolish this body have been growing louder. The Senate Finance Committee approved a cut in the NTF-ELCAC budget from 28 to 4 billion pesos. The surplus...
