December 4, 2025 - Katribu Kalipunan ng Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas joined allied human rights organizations today in renewing the urgent call to abolish the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) in a protest in front of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) in Quezon City. Katribu denounced the task force’s seventh year of institutionalized red-tagging, harassment, and attacks against Indigenous Peoples and Moro communit

December 8 is Indigenous Peoples and Moro Human Rights Day. It marks the anniversary of the 2001 assassination of Nicanor “Ka Kano” Delos Santos, a Dumagat leader who bravely opposed the destructive Kaliwa-Kanan-Laiban dam projects in the Sierra Madre. He was murdered by military forces under the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo administration. This December 8, Moro and Indigenous Peoples, and advocates will take to the streets to condemn the continuing and intensifying human rights v

December 2, 2025 - We strongly condemn the harassment and intimidation inflicted on Indigenous Woman human rights defender Elma Awingan-Tuazon and her family by elements of the Kalinga police led by PCol. Gilbert Fati-ig. On November 30, 2025, police personnel forcibly entered her home in Cawagayan, Pinukpuk, Kalinga while Elma was away with her children—an act that left her family shaken and traumatized. No one deserves this treatment from our own police, and no community sh

November 29, 2025 It has been more than a week since the military, particularly elements of the 103rd Infantry Battalion, 503rd Infantry Brigade, 5th Infantry Division, started their operations in Pinukpuk, Kalinga. The Philippine Army engaged 10 to 15 members of the New People’s Army (NPA) in Pinukpuk, Kalinga, on November 21, 2025. Since then, the barangay has been experiencing lockdown conditions and restrictions on mobility. On November 23, the army clashed with the NPA.