Tags

• Philippines: Indigenous People Unite for the Land

  

  October 24, 2008  3,948 views 1 comment Share

  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 

  There have been at least two major gatherings this month in the Philippines, where indigenous communities have vowed to protect their rights and defend their lands against resource exploitation. The first gathering was between Tribal Elders from ten communities in Barangay Gambang, Northern Philippines. The Elders gathered on October 10th, to speak out against an [...]

  Filed Under business • Indigenous Peoples • Lumad • Philippines • unity

• Indigenous tribe warns Canada of mining in Central Mindanao

  

  March 10, 2008  1,811 views 2 comments Share

  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 

  Luwaran reported on February 23, that a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Central Mindanao has warned Canada about pursuing a gold mining operation in South Upi, Maguindanao. Inhabited by Tirurays, Maguindanaos, and settlers, the situation was described "as a 'tinderbox' that could bring about both bloodshed and sufferings to the people." The article continues, The NGO’s [...]

  Filed Under business • Canada • gold • Indigenous Peoples • Lumad • mining • Philippines

• Underreported Struggles #10, January 2008

  

  February 1, 2008  2,226 views 2 comments Share

  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 

  Things are getting worse for the world's indigenous people. It's no longer a matter of a few companies doing whatever they want to gut a region at the direct expense of a culture, or about some government that's more than willing to crush down a people so the company can do it without interruption. The [...]

  Filed Under Africa • Apache • Australia • Bangladesh • Bari • Burma • Canada • Chiapas • China • Ethiopia • Indigenous Peoples • Jarawa • Karen • Kazakhstan • Kenya • Lumad • Mexico • Nueva Vizcaya • Oaxaca • Ogiek • Panama • Paraguay • Peru • Philippines • Phulbari • Russia • struggles • Taiwan • Tibet • underreported • Zapatista • Zapotec

• Lumad People facing more and more Military forces

  

  January 14, 2008  1,508 views 0 Comments Share

  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 

  Last week, Environmental groups from the Philippines cautioned against the government sending in larger deployments of police and military to protect mining operations such as the one headed by the Australian mining giant Xstrata in Tampakan, Mindanao. The groups warn that doing so "would give rise to even more conflict and human rights violations against [...]

  Filed Under business • displacement • Indigenous Peoples • land • Lumad • mining • Philippines

• Lumad struggle against development and conflict

  

  October 16, 2007  1,758 views 0 Comments Share

  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 

  Several Indigenous Leaders recently gathered in Mindanao to call for the abolishment of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) as well as the 10-year-old Indigenous Peoples Right Act (IPRA). Organized in connection to the Confederation of Lumad Organizations' General Assembly on October 6-10, the protest was part of a now-ongoing campaign for the Lumad [...]

  Filed Under business • campaigns • Indigenous Peoples • land • Lumad • Philippines • protests • struggles