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Landmark Law on Indegenous Peoples Hits a Dead End...

by ALECKS P. PABICO

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Journalism (PCIJ), an independent,  nonstock, nonprofit  media agency that
specializes in investigative reporting at its URL

http://www.pcij.org.ph

THE LANDMARK law on tribal rights will mark the first anniversary of its
passage this week, but  few among the country’s 12 million indigenous peoples
are in the mood for a celebration.
In the last few months, a conservative backlash has been threatening to negate
what little gains the Indigenous People’s Rights Act (IPRA) of 1997 has made
for a community that had long been neglected, and to destroy the morale of
tribal peoples who were just beginning to feel that they were no longer
strangers in their own land.........

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