PROBLEMS AND

ISSUES
CONFRONTING
ETHNIC GROUPS
HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

What are the problems and issues

confronting the ethnic groups in the
country?
HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

Violence, forced
Less Opportunities
01 assimulation, and
abuse
02 to Study

03 Systemic Racism 04 Criminalization of

Protest
 Violence, forced assimilation and abuse

Despite all the positive developments in national human rights standard-

setting, indigenous peoples continue to face serious human rights abuses
on a day-to-day basis. Issues of violence and brutality, continuing
assimilation policies, marginalization, dispossession of land, forced
removal or relocation, denial of land rights, impacts of large-scale
development, abuses by military forces and armed conflict, and a host of
other abuses, are a reality for indigenous communities around the country.
Less Opportunities to Study

Indigenous Peoples tend to have less access to and poorer

quality of education than other groups. Their education often
does not incorporate curricular and teaching methods that
recognize their communities' histories, cultures, pedagogies,
traditional languages and traditional knowledge.
Systemic Racism

Indigenous peoples frequently raise concerns about systemic

discrimination and outright racism from the State and its
authorities. This discrimination manifests itself in a number
of ways such as frequent and unnecessary questioning by the
police, condescending attitudes of teachers to students or
rudeness from a receptionist in a government office.
Criminalization of Protest

Indigenous peoples are facing criminalization and violence

the world over, tactics employed by private businesses and
governments seeking to use indigenous lands for their own
gain through economic development projects, according to
a report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council.
As in many other areas of the world, Philippine
Indigenous Peoples are being forced to defend
their territories from extractivism; however, the
main problem they are facing here is the
State’s attempt to criminalise them through
accusations of terrorism. Massacres,
persecution of leaders, illegal arrests, false
evidence and police and military repression are
just some of the emerging consequences of the
new Anti-Terrorism Law.
 The Cordillera Region

- rich in natural resources

- Its population largely comprises Indigenous Peoples from eight
different major ethno-linguistic groups, collectively known as the Igorot.
- The conflict has arisen because the forests and rivers of this region
contain most of the country's natural resources. Their high commercial
value means that extractivist projects and land grabbing is taking place
in violation of Indigenous rights and despite the existence of
progressive laws such as Law of the Republic No. 8371, known as the
Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act (IPRA).
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