The Philippines is home to over 110 ethnolinguistic groups. Each group has its distinct language, culture, and traditions. Prominent indigenous groups include the Igorot, Lumad, and Mangyan.

About 300 Indigenous people march Feb. 23 in Quezon City, Philippines, during a nine-day march to protest the construction of the Kaliwa Dam in their ancestral domain in the Sierra Madre mountain ...

The island of Mindanao in the Philippines is ringed by beaches and covered in volcanoes and gardens of exotic orchids. Mindanao has been home to the Indigenous Lumad peoples for centuries, but ...

Under Duterte’s term, national human rights group Karapatan tallied state-sponsored attacks on Indigenous Filipinos including 102 killings, 69 abductions, 1,173 illegal arrests, and 19,859 ...

The report analyzes the poverty, living conditions, social cohesion, and employment of IPs, IP & Muslim ethnic groups, and Muslim ethnic groups in the Philippines. It reveals considerable inequalities ...

A study analyzing the genomes of nearly 120 ethnic groups in the Philippines has identified that one population, the Ayta Magbukon, have the highest level of DNA derived from Denisovans, an extinct ...

Regional and local leaders in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) have agreed on a set of measures to ...

In 1997, the Philippines passed the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act.The act, which is aimed to protect ancestral, Indigenous lands, has provided Indigenous peoples land titles to nearly 5 million ...

The Philippines is one of the most mineral-rich countries in the world and is the second-largest global producer of nickel.It’s estimated that only 5 percent of the nation’s $1 trillion worth ...