80 2020 Annual Report on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines and dislocation. Regarding business-induced displacement, the National Commission on Indigenous People must ensure that the conduct of securing Free, Prior and Informed Consent is transparent and inclusive, done with leaders chosen by the indigenous peoples themselves. Compelling and overriding public interest must be established before business projects that will cause displacement is allowed. 323 The CHR urges the National Commission on Indigenous People, and other agencies relating to indigenous peoples’ rights, as well as civil society organizations, to closely monitor and intervene in the areas of Talaingod and Kapalong, Compostela Valley, Surigao, Bukidnon, and Upi, Maguindanao, including other areas of armed conflict, in ensuring the protection of indigenous peoples in their ancestral lands. 324 The CHR calls for the review of the Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Act, with the view of strengthening and capacitating the National Commission on Indigenous People and, perhaps, elevating it to the status of an independent commission, so it can fully perform its mandate. 325 The CHR calls for the creation of an Inter-Agency Monitoring Group on the Human Rights Situation of Indigenous Peoples, including those of the Lumad, to facilitate immediate responses to issues concerning indigenous peoples’ rights, including causes of conflict related to indigenous people ancestral domains, such as mineral extraction, logging and agro-industrial businesses. The participation of civil society organizations in this mechanism is highly encouraged. 326 Even as it recognizes the nobility in fighting for the rights of indigenous peoples, the CHR urges the organizers behind the Haran encampment to seriously examine their policies and methods, especially those that have led to transgressions of Lumad rights. The CHR views with serious concern the case of Lito Lundia and other members of his tribe, lured under false pretenses to Haran, and prevented from returning to their ancestral homes, despite already having expressed their strong desire or demand to be allowed to leave. Also, the humanitarian conditions that the indigenous peoples were made to endure inside the compound by the managers thereof, when help and facilities were offered to alleviate their situation, must give pause to the handlers of Haran to review their policies, system, and procedures, among others. 327 The CHR calls on the government to be mindful of the Constitutional guarantee of recognition and promotion of the rights of indigenous cultural communities within the framework of national unity and development by creating genuine programs toward preserving their culture, traditions, and institutions. It should endeavor to protect not only the indigenous peoples’ civil and political rights, but also their economic, social, and cultural rights. 328 The CHR especially calls on the government to be more proactive in protecting the rights of indigenous peoples to their ancestral lands. In this regard, the CHR calls on the government to facilitate the speedy issuance of Certificates of Ancestral Domain Titles and genuine implementation of the Ancestral Domain Sustainable Development and Protection Plan, in recognition of the struggle of the indigenous peoples for social justice, and to review issuances and orders related to ancestral lands to ensure that indigenous peoples’ rights over them are protected. 329 Although some individual members of indigenous cultural communities may have committed themselves to partisan causes, the Lumad must be encouraged to dialogue and resolve conflict among themselves, using their own indigenous cultural mechanisms

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