AN OPEN LETTER Sagip hits Talaingod officials for denying the evacuation of lumads An open letter on the evacuation, displacement and human rights abuses committed against the Ata-Manobo lumads of…
Datu Guibang Apoga, the chieftain of the Ata-Manobo tribe in the hinterlands of Talaingod, has been in hiding for a decade now.
Environmentalists are yet again scaling up Mt. Tipolog, known as the country?s lost volcano found in Barangay Tawan-Tawan, Baguio District, as their way of celebrating the generosity of the mountain to the residents of the area especially to the lumad (indigenous peoples).
This is in time for the celebration of October as the Indigenous People?s Month.
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?More on livelihood, health care and basic services ? water supply, better road access, and education.? These are the needs of indigenous peoples (Lumads) in his province, according to Davao del Norte Governor Rodolfo P. del Rosario when Mindanao Interfaith Services Foundation, Inc. (MISFI), a Davao City based non-governmental organization (NGO), made a courtesy visit in his office.
