Tag: indigenous people

With renewable energy goals driving government policies, the question arises: will these projects truly serve the people whose lands are at stake?

In their country's pursuit of renewable energy, Indigenous Peoples of the Philippines are placed at risk of losing their ancestral lands

The Kayan are a sub-group of the Red Karen (Karenni people), a Tibeto-Burman ethnic minority from Myanmar (Burma). The Kayan consists of the following...

“The government is using the law against the people like us who advocate for the defense of ancestral lands"

“It is crucial to place greater emphasis on our Indigenous sisters and brothers, who have long been excluded from many decisions.”

With climate change threatening their lands, the Indigenous Pulangiyen people are rebuilding Bendum's forests and restoring life-giving water to their ancestral home.

Pulangiyen community is one of the cultural groups in Mindanao that traditionally identify themselves by the river systems they inhabit

Methodist church leaders said that the attacks on Lumad schools were the actual actions that "endangered the lives of Indigenous children".

There has been no progress in their application for ancestral domain titles since the 1980s, “even though the requirements are complete.”

LILAK has raised concerns about the rising number of approvals and applications for projects that could harm the environment