Katribu National Alliance of Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines extends our warmest congratulations to LAHURNIP (Lawyers' Association for Human Rights of Nepalese Indigenous Peoples) for receiving the 2025 Human Rights and Business Award, announced in Geneva during the annual United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights. For three decades, LAHURNIP’s Indigenous lawyers have courageously stood with grassroots Indigenous communities in Nepal: defending their rights, se

November 19, 2025 Katribu Kalipunan ng Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas stands in unwavering and rightful solidarity with Indigenous Peoples everywhere on the day of action for Indigenous Peoples’ rights at COP30. We stand with the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil, who, when denied entry to the climate negotiation rooms, courageously protested their way into the COP30 venue as an assertion of their collective demand for land rights and an end to the destructive operations violen

November 14, 2025 QUEZON CITY — “Habang kinakasuhan at ikinukulong ang mga aktibista at tagapagtanggol ng karapatan, ang tunay na may sala, ang mga tiwali at abusadong opisyal ng gobyerno ay malayang nakakalusot. Ito ang anyo ng impunity na paulit-ulit nating tinutunggali,” said Beverly Longid, National Convener of Katribu, as former political prisoners Julieta Gomez and Niezel Velasco filed their position paper in countercharges against Philippine National Police (PNP) offic

Katribu Kalipunan ng Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas and the Int'l Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self Determination & Liberation, in partnership with the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Mary and St. John, commemorated International Indigenous Peoples’ Heroes Day through a mass, a short forum during coffee hour, and community dancing. The event honored the lives and legacies of Bishop Bob Longid, Mother Petra Macliing, Ben Solang, Bai Bibyaon Bigkay, Nicanor Delos Santos, Samma

October 29 marks the anniversary of the Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Act (IPRA), the very law that created the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP). But nearly three decades since its passage, what has it brought to Indigenous communities? Instead of upholding the rights to ancestral land and self-determination, IPRA and the NCIP have become instruments for repression, deception, dispossession, and corporate plunder of ancestral lands. As NCIP celebrates its anniver