Indigenous Peoples Right Act: (Ipra Law)
Indigenous Peoples Right Act: (Ipra Law)
Indigenous Peoples Right Act: (Ipra Law)
RIGHT ACT
( IPRA LAW)
RA 8371
The State shall recognize and promote all the rights of Indigenous Cultural
Communities/Indigenous Peoples (ICCs/IPs) hereunder enumerated within
the framework of the Constitution
to their ancestral domains to ensure their members of the ICCs/IPs regardless of sex, shall
economic, social and cultural well being and equally enjoy the full measure of human rights
shall recognize the applicability of customary and freedoms without distinction or
laws governing property rights or relations in discrimination
determining the ownership and extent of
ancestral domain
take measures, with the participation of the
ICCs/IPs concerned, to protect their rights and
to preserve and develop their cultures, traditions
guarantee respect for their cultural integrity, and
and institutions. It shall consider these rights in
to ensure that members of the ICCs/IPs benefit
the formulation of national laws and policies
on an equal footing from the rights and
opportunities which national laws and regulations
grant to other members of the population
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
EDUCATION
WHO ARE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES/
INDIGENOUS CULTURAL COMMUNITIES?
a group of people or homogenous societies identified by
self-ascription and ascription by others