Tampakan, South Cotabato. A local court has thrown out a motion to invalidate a local environmental code that bans open-pit mining in the...

LRC files petition on behalf of indigenous peoples at the Supreme Court, in Manila, on 7 August 2020. A group of indigenous and Moro...

Photo: Facebook Page - Senator Grace Poe Senator Grace Poe has filed the Philippine Mineral Resources Act[i], which seeks to usher in an...

“Assuming that the benefit of utilitarian punishment is a net increase in public safety, many do not mind that the cost is excessive...

LRC's new paper analyzes to what extent the concept of human security as used by the Philippine government makes indigenous cultural...

22 April 2020, Manila - Ottawa – Over two hundred NGOs from the Philippines and across the world have signed a statement condemning...

“My heart bleeds for our brave men and women of Didipio who had to suffer and be arrested for expressing their resistance against mining,...

27 January 2019, Manila, Philippines – A legal case is breathing new life into the controversial Tampakan Gold-Copper Project (TGCP), the...

The world can’t resist a cup of coffee. From 2014 to 2018, there was an increase in coffee consumption worldwide, and the Philippines is...

One year ago today, 8 T’boli and Manobo community members in Barangay Ned, Lake Sebu, South Cotabato were killed in an alleged military...