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    Indigenous peoples in the Philippines face significant discrimination and poverty. They make up 14% of the population but have much higher rates of illiteracy, unemployment, and poverty than other Filipinos. While the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act of 1997 aims to protect indigenous rights, it has proven ineffective due to weak enforcement and opposition from powerful groups. Indigenous communities remain isolated, lack access to basic services, and suffer from high illness and mortality. The government must do more to support indigenous peoples and encourage cultural diversity rather than condescension.

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    Indigenous peoples in the Philippines face significant discrimination and poverty. They make up 14% of the population but have much higher rates of illiteracy, unemployment, and poverty than other Filipinos. While the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act of 1997 aims to protect indigenous rights, it has proven ineffective due to weak enforcement and opposition from powerful groups. Indigenous communities remain isolated, lack access to basic services, and suffer from high illness and mortality. The government must do more to support indigenous peoples and encourage cultural diversity rather than condescension.

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    Indigenous peoples in the Philippines face significant discrimination and poverty. They make up 14% of the population but have much higher rates of illiteracy, unemployment, and poverty than other Filipinos. While the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act of 1997 aims to protect indigenous rights, it has proven ineffective due to weak enforcement and opposition from powerful groups. Indigenous communities remain isolated, lack access to basic services, and suffer from high illness and mortality. The government must do more to support indigenous peoples and encourage cultural diversity rather than condescension.

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    Reflection-Paper About IPs

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    Axel Ngan
    Indigenous peoples in the Philippines face significant discrimination and poverty. They make up 14% of the population but have much higher rates of illiteracy, unemployment, and poverty than other Filipinos. While the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act of 1997 aims to protect indigenous rights, it has proven ineffective due to weak enforcement and opposition from powerful groups. Indigenous communities remain isolated, lack access to basic services, and suffer from high illness and mortality. The government must do more to support indigenous peoples and encourage cultural diversity rather than condescension.

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    Ngan, Axel Ross Benny P.

    BSAIS-2B

    Here in the Philippines, such abuses will not really removed in the traits of
    Filipinos such mistreatment of our neighbors doing harassment, discrimination or not
    helping them because they are different from us. Although they are pitiful, there is
    nothing we can do as residents of the urban area. Most of the indigenous people
    actually live in remote or hidden places and they have many things to take care of here.

    The IPs make up nearly 14% of the country's population. They are the poorest
    and most vulnerable social category in the country. They have considerably greater
    rates of illiteracy, unemployment, and poverty than the rest of the population. IPs have
    historically faced prejudice and exclusion in political and economic processes in the
    Philippines. Isolation, loss of ancestral lands, migration, assaults on and destruction of
    traditional practices and customs, and loss of identity and culture are all common
    occurrences.

    The IPRA is the law known as Republic Act No. 8371 “The Indigenous Peoples’
    Rights Act of 1997” that fights to protect them when it comes to their status in life but it
    has proven to be a very weak protection on the ground for indigenous communities. The
    issue is with the legislation's execution, which has been hindered by significant political
    organizations who have used sections of the law's inconsistencies with other laws, or
    simply employed force to deport these indigenous peoples.

    Powerlessness, lack of access to land and resources, lack of knowledge (due to


    a lack of education), inadequate income, and alienation from familial and culture are
    cited as significant markers of poverty among indigenous resource people. These
    prioritize access to basic services, livelihood programs, and fundamental social
    infrastructure. Instead of condescending and stereotyping indigenous peoples, the
    government should encourage trust and acceptance of indigenous peoples as equal in
    the development process. On the contrary, it should be founded on cultural diversity.
    They need to allocate a certain percentage of their budget for indigenous peoples’
    development issues and concerns, and create an indigenous peoples’ desk

    It is not right that we just let them go and abuse them with the powers we have
    because we are all also human. It is wrong for us not to accept them as citizens of this
    country because they do nothing wrong but they even strengthen the ancient practices
    of our country. IP communities are isolated, lack access to essential services, and have
    a high illness, mortality, and starvation rate.

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