Kathmandu—Southeast Asia has not been at the forefront of promoting human rights, much less the rights of indigenous peoples, where the region’s record is even darker and more concerning. Indonesia, ...

A London-based digital nomad recently shared her unique experience with an Aeta community — a Black population anthropologists consider indigenous ... first people to arrive on the [Philippines ...

For Joy Poligon, life is simple, if harsh. “If I don’t go to our rice field every day, we will have nothing to eat.” It takes her an hour for a return trip. Poligon is a rice farmer, mother ...

The history of the Philippines begins with the indigenous first peoples known as Negritos, who mixed with successive waves of Malay migrants from around 3,000BC. Then, in the 16th Century ...

In the ancestral domain of Baguio’s original settlers in Barangay Happy Hallow, Ibaloy households frequently consume taro vegetable stew (“pising,” which mixes ...

Indigenous Peoples’ rights defenders Dexter Capuyan and Gene Roz Jamil “Bazoo” de Jesus, from the Cordillera region in northern Philippines, have been missing since 28 April 2023, in a suspected ...

PCIEERD, uses Natural Language Processing to preserve endangered Indigenous languages in Mindanao, developing tools like ...

Around 3.6 million households in the Philippines are not connected to ... The village, which is predominantly Indigenous Igorot like most in the region, has electricity 24 hours a day, except ...

AFP The local government in a resource-rich Philippine province has unanimously ... and flooding to the displacement of Indigenous peoples. There are currently 11 mines operated in Palawan ...

as the Philippines prepares for local and national elections that will take place in May 2025. In the Catholic community of Palawan, there are calls to give priority to candidates who are committed to ...