3 MIN READRevised rules governing free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) for projects in ancestral domains have raised concerns among Indigenous rights advocates.
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4 MIN READ Four environmental defenders from Northern Luzon—two grassroots organizations, a Catholic bishop, and a detained community physician—have been shortlisted for their work protecting the environment, ancestral lands, and community rights.
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2 MIN READThe 2025 film “Bloom Where You Are Planted,” documentary about activists in the Cagayan Valley region won four awards, including Best Picture, at the 49th Gawad Urian Awards.
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2 MIN READ CIVICUS has called on the Marcos administration to end the continuing crackdown on civic freedoms, warning that space for activists, journalists and civil society groups in the Philippines “is worsening.”
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2 MIN READFour Cordillera activists are challenging the April 30 decision of Baguio RTC Branch 78, which denied their certiorari petition against the Anti-Terrorism Council.
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3 MIN READIn 2025, the Philippines recorded 12 killings of land and environmental defenders, making it the most dangerous country in Asia for defenders of land and ecosystems.
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3 MIN READHuman rights defenders and activists facing terrorism-related cases have asked the Supreme Court to review two anti-terror laws, citing a growing number of cases that include the latest charges against 11 activists in Cagayan Valley.
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2 MIN READ Eleven campus publications in Ilocos have backed The Scribe, the student publication of Mindanao State University-Maguindanao, following reports that its editor-in-chief, Alyajier Midtimbang, was preventively suspended.
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4 MIN READFlooding along NLEX delayed Benguet vegetable deliveries to Manila by up to 12 hours on Sept. 1, causing traders to miss key market windows and adding transport losses to prolonged rains, crop damage, depressed prices and importation.
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3 MIN READThe Pangasinan People’s Strike for the Environment criticized Executive Order No. 122, establishing a national framework for critical minerals, warning that it is ‘dangerous’ because it will intensify mineral exploitation and worsen the climate crisis.
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