PHI: Providing for the Creation of a Special Task Force to Address the Emergency Situations Adversely Affecting the Indigenous Peoples

Event: Country Safeguard Systems: Southeast Asia

PHI: Providing for the Creation of a Special Task Force to Address the Emergency Situations Adversely Affecting the Indigenous Peoples

11 January 2002

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National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) was created, by virtue of the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act of 1997 (Republic Act No. 8371), to serve as the primary government agency responsible for the formulation and implementation of policies, plans and programs to promote and protect the rights and well-being of the indigenous peoples

Geographical Focus:

Philippines

Type of Content:

Learning Event

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