Philippines: Call For Pnoy To End Violence Vs. Indigenous Peoples

Philippines: Call For Pnoy To End Violence Vs. Indigenous Peoples   LRC STATEMENT ON THE MONTH OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES (IP) A CALL FOR PNOY TO END VIOLENCE VS. INDIGENOUS PEOPLES   In 2009, Presidential Order 1906 was signed declaring October as a national Indigenous Peoples (IP) month.   This month, the Indigenous Peoples month, 2 people were brutally murdered – an IP leader and a committed IP rights advocate. In October 14, Datu Roy Gallego, a chieftain of the Manobo tribe in Surigao del...

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