annortunities, housing,
social
and the justice system.
These include, but
sectors and groups
are not
security, physical infrastructure,
limited t0, women in the
following
1. "Children" refers to those who are below
eighteen
(18) years of age or over but are unable to fully take
care of themselves or protect themselves from abuse,
neglect, cruelty, exploitation, or discrimination because
of a physical or mental disability or condition;
2. "Fisherfolk" refers to those directly or indirectly
engaged in taking, culturing, or processing fishery or
aquatic resources. These include, but are not to be
limited to, women engaged in fishing in municipal
waters, coastal and marine areas, women workers in
commercial fishing and aquaculture, vendors and
processors of fish and coastal products, and subsistence
producers such as shell-gatherers, managers, and
producers of mangrove resources, and other related
producers;
3. "Indigenous Peoples" refers to a group of people or
homogenous societies identified by self-ascription and
ascription by other, who have continuously lived as
organized community on communally bounded and
defined territory, and who have, under claims of
ownership since time immemorial, occupied, possessed
Customs, tradition, and other distinctive cultural traits,
or who have, through resistance to political, social, and
cultural inroads of colonization, non-indigenous
religions and culture, became historically differentiated
from the majority of Filipinos. They shall likewise
include peoples who are regarded as indigenous on
account of their descent from the populations which
inhabited the country, at the time of conquest or
colonization, or at the time of inroads of non-
indigenous religions and cultures, or the establishment
of present state boundaries, who retain some or all of
their own social, economic, cultural, and political
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