E/CN.4/2003/90/Add.3 page 27 (h) That adequate basic social services, including housing, education, health, food and drinking water, be made available to all indigenous peoples in the country to the maximum extent possible; (i) That maximum protection be afforded to human rights defenders in carrying out their legitimate human rights work; (j) That the Government of the Philippines request the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to establish an office in the Philippines to provide technical cooperation in the field of the promotion and protection of the human rights of indigenous peoples; (k) That the Philippines speedily ratify International Labour Organization Convention No. 169 concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries; (l) That the universities, research centres, foundations, government research units, United Nations agencies and non-governmental organizations combine and coordinate their efforts and resources to carry out basic and policy-oriented research in and with the participation of indigenous communities in order to strengthen human rights protection mechanisms and bring the issues surrounding the rights of indigenous peoples to a wider audience; (m) That the rights of indigenous peoples be a standard linchpin of all human rights education programmes at all levels of formal schooling, as well as in non-formal education; (n) That the mass media allocate sufficient time and space for the presentation of the major human rights issues involving indigenous peoples. Notes 1 NCIP has divided the Philippines into seven ethnographic regions, as follows: (1) Northern Luzon and the Cordillera Autonomous Region (CAR); (2) North-eastern Luzon; (3) the rest of Luzon; (4) Visayan Island groups; (5) Northern and Western Mindanao; (6) Southern and Eastern Mindanao and Caraga; and (7) Central Mindanao. 2 Section 3 (h) of the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act of 1997. “ICCs/IPs 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 institutions, but who may have been displaced from their traditional domains or who may have resettled outside their ancestral domains.” 3 Raymond D. Rovillos and Daisy N. Morales. Indigenous Peoples/Ethnic Minorities and Poverty Reduction: Philippines (Manila, Asian Development Bank, June 2002), pp. 4-6.