E/CN.4/2003/90/Add.3
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Annex
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and
fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, Mr. Rodolfo Stavenhagen,
submitted in accordance with Commission on Human Rights
resolution 2002/65
CONTENTS
Paragraphs
Introduction ..............................................................................................
Page
1
7
I.
PROGRAMME OF THE VISIT ..................................................
2-3
7
II.
GENERAL CONTEXT ................................................................
4 - 10
7
III.
1997 INDIGENOUS PEOPLES RIGHTS ACT:
A NEW BEGINNING ..................................................................
11 - 28
9
A.
Codification of indigenous peoples’ rights .......................
11 - 12
9
B.
NCIP and its role in the implementation of IPRA ............
13 - 15
9
C.
Certificates of ancestral domains title and ancestral
lands title ..........................................................................
16 - 21
10
D.
Conflict of laws ................................................................
22 - 23
11
E.
Indigenous customary law ................................................
24 - 25
12
F.
Indigenous knowledge systems and practices ..................
26 - 28
12
MAJOR HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES FOR PHILIPPINE
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ............................................................
29 - 56
13
A.
Resource management and sustainable development .......
30 - 38
13
B.
Poverty and insufficient provision of basic social
services for indigenous peoples ........................................
39 - 43
18
C.
Militarization and human rights violations .......................
44 - 53
19
D.
Remedial measures for human rights violations ...............
54 - 56
22
IV.