In this World Pulse story, Bai Ellen Manlimbaas, Lumad Indigenous women leaders of the Matigsalog tribe living in the village of White Culaman, Bukidnon, Mindanao, Philippines, recounts her abduction and month-long detention by the military for to her work with other local leaders and rural women to oppose the continued ingression of destructive development, militarization and corporate farming and mining into Lumad homelands. Photo credit: World Pulse
