Numerous cases of extrajudicial executions, arrests, torture and land grabbing of Indigenous Peoples are happening with full impunity. This must end now! The Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI) condemns the militarization and the resulting gross human rights violations..
On Human Rights Day, Indigenous Peoples in Latin America are facing a profoundly grave situation. They are on the losing end in the gap between the development of national and international normative standards for the protection of their..
On June 30, 2021, 35 families or around 200 individuals, majority of whom belonged to tribal communities and few were Dalits, were forcibly evicted from Bhatapani and Dumerpani hamlets in Sahajkhol Reserve Forest under Ampani police station area..
Arbitrary arrest and detention On March 9, 2021, Hidme Markam, 28, an Adivasi human rights activist, was arrested while at an event marking the International Women’s Day organized by the Jail Bandi Rihai Committee (Committee for Release of..
On February 28, 2021, Barangay Captain Julie Catamin who challenged the baseless red tagging of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the military was shot dead. Catamin is a member of the indigenous Tumandok community. He was among..
On July 12, 2021, the Regional Trial Court in Tagum City, capital of Davao del Norte – a province in Davao region in Mindanao Island at the south of the Philippines—rejected the criminal prosecution against the indigenous human..
