Indigenous peoples

A positive news update has been revealed regarding the repatriation of Rohingya. In the first phase, the authorities of the country have identified 180,000 Rohingyas from the list of 800,000 Rohingyas who have taken refuge in Bangladesh to be returned to Myanmar. At…

Guwahati: London-based global outfit dedicated to indigenous and tribal peoples’ rights, Survival International (SI) expressed relief that a foreigner was arrested after landing on North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean to make contact with the uncontacted Sentinelese people. Terming…

Three significant developments have occurred in a week which once again brought the much-talked-about Rohingya refugee crisis to the global media. First, last week United Nations Secretary General António Guterres visited the Rohingya refugees living in squalid camps in south-east…

by Meriam Beverly P. Ticobay Baguio City, Philippines. Real beauty in the hands of human creativity draws thousands of crowds in Baguio City during the 29th Panagbenga Festival, an annual festivity and a month-long celebration that starts on the first…

A jury in North Dakota has found Greenpeace liable in a defamation lawsuit by Energy Transfer, an oil company based in Dallas, Texas. Energy Transfer sued Greenpeace in state court over protests of the Dakota Access Pipeline that took place…

After nearly 50 years of arbitrary detention, Native American activist Leonard Peltier was finally able to return home on February 18. He received a triumphant welcome in his native land, the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in North Dakota. “I’ve been…

A Love Letter to Myself By Florence (Dom-an) Macagne Dear Dom-an, When did you last get a love letter? I remember the long and short letters from a dear friend before his Sacred Breath was suddenly snatched out of his fragile…

By: Rhodalyn B. Cabbotot The Panagbenga Festival, held annually in Baguio City, is more than just a celebration of flowers. It’s a vibrant representation of the community’s roots, strength, and solidarity. The 2025 festival’ theme is “Blossom Beyond Boundaries’‘, capturing…

The Philippine Misereor Partnership Inc. (PMPI) challenges the Maharlika Investment Corporation’s (MIC) blatant and incomprehensible move to fund a loan agreement favoring a gold and copper mining project in Kalinga province. The MIC was created through R.A 11954 or the…

Since its independence in 1962, the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria has adopted a whole series of constitutions that, sometimes amended or supplemented, have governed the country’s political system. The unitary state has brilliantly failed since independence. Find another form…