e) The CHR recommends that Congress, particularly the Committees on IP, draft a bill amending
IPRA to provide for budget appropriations to answer for claims for reparations of indigenous
peoples based on documented displacement and other acts of marginalization brought about
by historical State policies and programs and to create an IP rights violations claims board.
In the alternative, Congress may provide for budget appropriations for AD development along
the parameters set out in the respective ADSDPPs of the IPs that ought to be developed
considering the rights-based approach to development planning 37. CHR further recommend
the enactment of an Ethnic Origin Act (Senate Bill Number 912 and House Bill Number 00579)
to protect indigenous identity including those IPs outside their ADs
f)
The CHR calls upon the NCIP to ensure the validity of the selection process for the IPMRs
(IP Mandatory Representatives) by their respective Indigenous Political Structure (IPS) with
the DILG ensuring that the concern LGU recognizes these selections.
g) The CHR enjoins all government agencies to establish and designate IP Desk/focal points in
in order to ensure that proper attention is given by the state duty bearers on IP rights pursuant
to IPRA and to inform the CHR within 30 days of related actions taken by relevant agencies
h) The CHR calls on the Senate to ratify the ILO Convention 169 or the Indigenous and Tribal
Peoples Convention to further enhance and as a testament of our commitment to international
standards on IP rights.
V.b. Other Recommendations for the establishment of an IP Human Rights Observatory
a) Emergency Response Mechanisms and Thematic Technical Working Groups
With advances in technology comes the responsibility for its proper uses. Capability Building
within IP communities over the years have enabled them to document events as they occur and
transmit them electronically in order to access private and government assistance.
In the event of extrajudicial executions of IP rights defenders and internal displacement of IP
communities, for example, a private, secured section of the CHR IP Human Rights Observatory
Online Platform in the CHR website can function as emergency alert/notification. Both CHR and
NCIP Regional offices can coordinate to follow through on investigation while the interagency
partnership can convene a technical working group (TWG) for that specific category of IP Rights
violations.
The old system of referrals may just go around in circles with each bureaucratic agency washing
its hands citing other agencies’ failures but that does no one any good, least of all the human
rights victims.
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CHR recommends the use of the guidelines in the Rights-Based Ancestral Domain Sustainable Development &
Protection Plan (ADSDPP) Primer
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