Cordillera Peoples Alliance Statement On Indigenous Peoples And The Right To Decision Making: ...

Cordillera Peoples Alliance Statement On Indigenous Peoples And The Right To Decision Making: 3rd Session EMRIP   ON THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN DECISION-MAKING   In 16 October 1996 the Philippine government singed into law (RA 8371) the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA). The law supposedly meant to give justice to the decades of marginalization, misrepresentation, discrimination and dispossession of Philippine indigenous peoples from their ancestral lands. It was modelled from the...

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