and the justice system. These include, but are notlimited to, women in the following
sectors and groups:
1.
“Small Farmers and Rural Workers" refers to those who are engaged directly or
indirectly in small farms and forests areas, workers in commercial farms and
plantations, whether paid or unpaid, regular or season-bound. Theseshall include,
but are notlimited to, (a) small farmers who ownorarestill amortizing for lands that
is not morethanthree (3) hectares, tenants, leaseholders, and stewards; and(b) rural
workers whoare either wage earners, self-employed, unpaid family workers directly
and personally engagedin agriculture, small-scale mining, handicrafts, and other
related farm and off-farm activities;
2.
“Fisherfolk” refers to those directly or indirectly engaged in taking, culturing, or
processingfishery or aquatic resources. Theseinclude, but are not to belimited to,
women engagedin fishing in municipal waters, coastal and marine areas, women
workers in commercialfishing and aquaculture, vendors and processorsof fish and
coastalproducts, and subsistence producers such as shell-gatherers, managers, and
producersof mangroveresources,and otherrelated producers;
3.
“Urban Poor"refers to those residing in urban and urbanizable slum orblighted areas,
with or without the benefit of security of abode, where the incomeof the headof the
family cannotafford in a sustained mannerto provide forthe family's basic needs of
food, health, education, housing, and otheressentialsinlife;
4.
"Workers in the Formal Economy"refers to those who are employed by any person
acting directlyorindirectly in the interest of an employerin relation to an employee and
shall include the governmentandall its branches, subdivisions, and instrumentalities,
all government-ownedandcontrolled corporationsandinstitutions, as well as nonprofit private institutions or organizations;
5.
“Workersin the Informal Economy"refers to self-employed, occasionally or personally
hired, subcontracted, paid and unpaid family workers in household incorporated
and unincorporated enterprises, including home workers, micro-entrepreneurs and
producers,and operatorsof sari-sari stores andall other categories who suffer from
violation of workers' rights;
6.
“Migrant Workers’refersto Filipinos whoare to be engaged, are engaged,or have been
engaged in a remuneratedactivity in a State of which they are not legal residents,
whether documented or undocumented;
7.
“Indigenous Peoples"refers to a group of people or homogenoussocieties 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 resistanceto political,
social, and cultural inroads of colonization, non-indigenousreligions and culture,
became historically differentiated from the majority of Filipinos. They shall likewise
include peoples whoare regardedas indigenous onaccountof their descent from the
populations which inhabited the country, at the time of conquestor colonization, or
at the time of inroads of non-indigenousreligions and cultures,or the establishment
of present state boundaries, who retain someorall of their own social, economic,
cultural, and political institutions, but who may have been displaced from their
traditional domainsas defined under Section 3(h), ChapterII of Republic Act No. 8371,
otherwise knownas"The IndigenousPeoples Rights Act of 1997"(IPRA of 1997);
8.
“Moro" refers to native peoples who havehistorically inhabited Mindanao, Palawan,
and Sulu, and whoarelargely of the Islamicfaith;
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