It has been three years since the signing of the Indigenous People's Right Act of 1997. A landmark piece of legislation, it guarantees the rights of IPs to ancestral domain, self-governance and empowerment, social justice and human rights, and cultural integrity.. A petition seeking that the...
8371 of 1997. The overall and long term goal of the policy was based on the assumption that people, when they are given the right of tenure to the land, will be more committed and concerned for its protection and conservation. Ii is argued here that the mere awarding of ancestral domain...
Three Years of the the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act: Its Impact on Indigenous Communities It has been three years since the signing of the Indigenous People's Right Act of 1997. A landmark piece of legislation, it guarantees the rights of IPs to... NT Castro - 《Kasarinlan Philippine Jou...
Read the full-text online article and more details about "Swallows and Sacred Lakes: In 2003, the Indigenous Tagbanua People Won the Right to Self-Rule of Their Ancestral Lands on the Philippine Island of Coron. Seven Years on, Tourism Is Providing the C
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Since the entire area of Saskatchewan is covered by colonial cession treaties, it is generally assumed that indigenous peoples cannot claim any aboriginal rights and titles within this province. 115. Regarding the inherent right of all peoples to self-determination, see Articles 1(2) and 55 ...
(c) CLAIMS TO FUNDING UNAFFECTED- Nothing in this Act shall create or preclude a right of any religious organization to receive funding or other assistance from a government, or of any person to receive government funding for a religious activity, but this Act may require a government to incur...
(Western-oriented) right to religion has been proven inadequate in protecting Indigenous Peoples’ rights. It recognizes that this is partly because of the distinctive characteristics of Indigenous religions, which differ from other dominant religions, but also because of the way in which religion has...
Responding to the influx of Chinese immigrants, the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901 (“White Australia” policy) aimed at excluding all people who were not of British or European descent from entering the country. This law was designed to prevent the diluting of Australia’s Anglo-Celtic heri...
Governmental rationing of people and property was the original intention for the designation of “Indigenous” status in the nineteenth century. The relevancy is increasing as nations narrow and expand their definitions “in response to demographic, legal, and political pressures” [21]. There is no...