Indigenous children displaced by paramilitary violence attend school in late August in a makeshift classroom in a church compound in Davao, on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. Hundreds of indigenous are living in the church center, afraid to return home. (CNS photo / Paul Jeffrey)
"Indigenous peoples have the collective right to live in freedom, peace and security as distinct peoples and shall not be subjected to any act of genocide or any other act of violence, including forcibly removing children of the group to another group."
- From the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Article 7, point 2, September 2007
Learn more about the movement to advance the rights of indigenous people around the world at FirstPeoples.org
