Lumad leader Michelle Campos has been described by her relatives and human rights defenders as someone who is determined to fight for justice.
The newly installed Indigenous People’s Mandatory Representative (IPMR) of Davao's Sangguniang Panlungsod begins his term with plans of funding cultural development of the indigenous communities as well as their empowerment to protect the city's watershed.
On the heels of impeachment filing against Vice President Sara Duterte and the quad-comm House hearings on the war on drugs and POGO, an ethics complaint was filed against a House member who played a key role in the hearings, ACT Teachers Representative France Castro.
“When our schools were closed in November 2018, the military threatened our lives. They said that if we don’t leave our school, they would kill a teacher or a student,” a Lumad youth said during the launch of Defend Talaingod 13, October 17.
A Talaingod chieftain found freedom after three years of detention as the Tagum City court acquitted him of trafficking Lumad students.