BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A community radio station in the Philippines is drawing attention to the struggles of indigenous Lumad people, whose rights to ancestral land and resources are ...

Over 700 Lumad (indigenous peoples from the southern Philippine island of Mindanao) traveled thousands of kilometers and set up protest camps in the nation's capital of Manila in October 2015 to ...

THE Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) has condemned Monday’s “horrific” police raid on a Lumad school in Cebu city in which 25 people, mainly children, were taken into custody, demanding their ...

MADAUM, Philippines, April 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As Philippine military battalions closed in, shutting down schools, rounding up men and harassing women, Tungig Mansumuy had to make a ...

The Philippine bishops’ Episcopal Commission on Indigenous Peoples (ECIP) has condemned a government order banning the use of the word “lumad,” a widely recognized term when referring to indigenous ...

Honest rulers supported by an enlightened public can put an end to the exploitation and abuse of vulnerable communities Indigenous people are under threat as never before and need the international ...

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY ― Indigenous people’s educators and their allies on Tuesday marked the first anniversary of the conviction of 13 Lumad teachers and community advocates, who they say were unjustly ...