MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte, a year ago, threatened to bomb Lumad schools—volunteer-run schools for indigenous peoples' communities in remote parts of Mindanao—for ...

When soldiers parked the tank in front of her lumad school in North Cotabato, Kat-kat knew it was time to leave her village. “All I wanted to do was study,” Kat-kat, 15, and now in Grade 10 ...

Solita Collas Monsod prefaced her column, “Who is exploiting the ‘lumad’?” (Opinion, 9/19/15), with demographics of indigenous people and the lumad “in order to know how many are affected by the ...

According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), hundreds of Lumad, an umbrella term for multiple different indigenous communities, have taken shelter at an evacuation camp in Davao City — Mindanao’s la ...

As the world deals with a disease, the young Lumad in the Bakwit School turn to their culture and community for support Since the COVID-19 lockdown in Metro Manila was announced mid-March ...

A diorama of the North Cotabato province. Moro Muslims and Christian settlers occupy most of the lowlands, including the marshes, while the Lumad live in the mountains. [JC Gotinga/Al Jazeera] The ...

But I will be fair and constructive and suggest concrete steps that can stop the Lumad killings in Surigao del Sur and address the roots of these recent events. This must be done before it spreads ...

Aside from deaths and arrests, several lumad schools ran by nongovernment institutions were also targeted by government and paramilitary forces, Kalumaran added. “It is a form of ethnocide ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Lumad leaders from the Philippines made a stop in San Francisco on their speaking tour across the United States to raise awareness of politically motivated violence and forced ...

MANILA, Philippines — Lumads are not the root of trouble over their ancestral lands, a Lumad leader said Friday after President Rodrigo Duterte told representatives of indigenous peoples ...