Government of the Philippines must commit accountability to violations to indigenous peoples' rights at Universal Periodic Review
The UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review is a mechanism that fundamentally aims to convince states to adhere to international humanitarian laws and other covenants. The Philippines, who have signed almost all UN Human Rights instruments and optional protocols, will be under international scrutiny in its human rights performance.
Indigenous peoples condemn killing of Margarito Cabal
Kalipunan ng mga Katutubong Mamamayan n Pilipinas (KAMP) condemned the killing of Margarito Cabal, a government employee from Kibawe, Bukidnon. Cabal was shot down by two unidentified men in a motorcycle last May 9, Cabal sustained four gunshot wonds to the head and chest.
In a protest action at the gates of the Department of National Defense, KAMP, Katribu Partylist and other human rights organizations carpeted the agency with a streamer calling to “Stop the Killings!”
‘Where is your title?’ asked NCIP Commissioner to protesting IPs
It seems these words are not exclusive to land-grabbers, says Piya Macliing Malayao, spokesperson of Kalipunan ng mga Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas (KAMP.) Malayao referred to the words spoken by National Commission on Indigenous Peoples Chairperson Hon. Zenaida Brigida Hamada-Pawid when members of Lumad tribes in Mindanao staged protest in her office in Quezon City.
Large-scale mining is largest bane to Mother Earth
No one values the Earth than the indigenous peoples, says Kalipunan ng mga Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas spokesperson, Piya Macliing Malayao. “Indigenous peoples find their identity in the earth, in nature, and in their ancestral lands. The Earth Day is a celebration of our being a people. What destroys the earth destroys us as indigenous people,” she added.
Malayao is a Bontoc Igorot from Mountain Province.
KAMP and progressive indigenous peoples’ partylist KATRIBU Partylist highlighted the Earth Day celebrations with the “Thousand Streamer Campaign” a streamer-hanging protest against “destructive, large-scale mining.”
“The Thousand Streamer Campaign is the people’s expression of opposition to the increasing sell-out of our mineral resources to large-scale mining companies. Undeniably, large-scale mining is a large toll on the environment,” Malayao claimed. “On Earth Day, it is only fitting that we demand the halt on Mother Earth’s biggest foe.”
IPs denounce rape of minors in Benguet, demand military pullout in all IP communities
Indigenous peoples from Kalipunan ng mga Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas (KAMP) and KATRIBU Partylist demanded the immediate pullout of State armed forces in the Cordillera, citing human rights violations that ensue in militarized communities, one of which is the alleged rape of two girls by a military official in Benguet.
‘Oplan Bayanihan’ blamed for spate of human rights violations on indigenous peoples
Indigenous peoples and human rights organizations staged a protest action in front of the Department of National Defense gates today, bewailing human rights violations done against indigenous peoples. "The Aquino administration seems to shrug off human rights violations done against the indigenous people. In lieu of justice, we find our human rights continually violated though his counter-insurgency policies," Bontoc-Igorot and KAMP spokesperson Piya Macliing Malayao said.
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Indigenous people's group alarmed at rising human rights violations
Attacks on the human rights of indigenous peoples has been rampant this past few weeks according to indigenous peoples' organization Kalipunan ng mga Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas (KAMP.) "The Aquino adminstration seems to tolerate the human rights violations done against the people. In lieu of justice, we find our human rights situation deteriorating," Bontoc-Igorot and KAMP spokesperson Piya Macliing Malayao said.
KAMP calls for justice over Lumad killing
National alliance of indigenous peoples’ organizations in the Philippines, KAMP (Kalipunan ng mga Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas) is dismayed by government inaction in the extrajudicial killing of Lumad leader Jimmy Liguyon last March 5, 2012.
Liguyon was the vice-chairperson of Kasilo, an organization of Ata-Matigsalug Lumad in Bukidnon. He was shot allegedly by Aldy “Butsoy” Salusad, who is said to lead a paramilitary group that operates in the province.
