Indigenous peoples

Filipino craftsmanship is finding a new canvas in contemporary fashion as artisans from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts’ (NCCA) Schools of Living Traditions (SLT) program bring this artistry to UNIQLO Philippines’ “Filipino Artisan Patches for the Celebration of 70 Years…

For much of my adult life, human rights have not been a subject I merely studied. It has been a matter that hit my heart and occupied my mind. I could never treat a violation as an abstraction, because behind…

After 76 days of peaceful protest against the government and development projects linked to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, the Flamingo Revolution movement awaits the arrival of hundreds of diaspora members on August 14, 15, and 16, who will join…

After the acquittal of all 40 alleged accused by the court, the case regarding the alleged mass killing of five Dalits in Dangawas, Rajasthan—which occurred 11 years ago—is back in the headlines with anger and resentment. On August 12, 2026,…

Climate change is the force behind the greatest migration storm of all time. It will be 500,000,000 or maybe 2,000,000,000; nobody knows for sure how many, but as climate change worsens, the estimates go up. Scientific studies run the gamut…

“Those people go naked, wearing but one piece of palm-tree cloth about their private parts.” Wrote Antonio Pigafetta (1491 – 1534), the Venetian who, in 1519, joined the expedition led by Ferdinand Magellan to the Moluccas Spice Islands. By March…

The massive flood in eastern Assam, India, due to heavy rainfall in the entire zone, was worsened by man-made environmental degradation in the hilly terrains of Nagaland. The unprecedented rains (up to 137 mm, but not identified as a cloudburst…

“There is no such thing as a free lunch.” The adage that economists used to explain opportunity cost also applies to the invisible cost that comes with every gain or action. The environment and humans who are dependent on them…

On 3 August 2014, the Islamic State (ISIS, also known as ISIL or Da’esh) launched a coordinated attack on the Sinjar region of northern Iraq, home to much of Iraq’s Yazidi community. Men and older women were killed, women and…

I. Introduction: The Moral and Philosophical Scandal of Statelessness Few conditions so starkly expose the limits of our moral and political order as those of the stateless person. For Hannah Arendt, the refugee or stateless individual—deprived of citizenship and stripped…