RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE APPROPRIATE SENATE COMMITTEE TO CONDUCT AN INQUIRY, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, INTO THE ESCALATING ATTACKS ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE APPROPRIATE SENATE COMMITTEE TO CONDUCT AN INQUIRY, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, INTO THE MISAPPROPRIATION OF INDIGENOUS CULTURAL HERITAGE

RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE PROPER SENATE COMMITTEES TO CONDUCT AN INQUIRY, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, ON THE ISSUE OF COUNTERFEIT GARMENTS APPROPRIATING WEAVE PATTERNS OF FILIPINO INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND COMMUNITIES ENTERING THE COUNTRY

RESOLUTION URGING THE APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES, TO CONDUCT A HEARING IN AID OF LEGISLATION, ON THE INFLUX OF COUNTERFEIT CORDILLERA-WOVEN BLANKETS AND GARMENTS IN THE PHILIPPINE LOCAL MARKET, WITH THE END GOAL OF PROTECTING THE SOURCE OF LIVELIHOOD, AUTONOMY, AND INDIGENOUS CRAFT OF LOCAL WEAVERS BY STRENGTHENING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND PROTECTING THE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

A RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE APPROPRIATE SENATE COMMITTEES TO CONDUCT FURTHER INQUIRY ON THE GOVERNMENT’S EFFORTS TO ADDRESS THE PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES OF THE NEW CENTENNIAL WATER SOURCE – KALIWA DAM PROJECT AND TO RESOLVE THE CONCERNS AFFECTING THE FURTHERANCE OF SAID PUBLIC WORKS PROJECT

RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE APPROPRIATE SENATE COMMITTEE TO CONDUCT AN INQUIRY, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, ON THE ATTEMPT TO MONETIZE AND APPROPRIATE THE BUTBUT KALINGA TRADITIONAL TATTOO KNOWN AS 'BATOK' WITHOUT THE FREE AND PRIOR INFORMED CONSENT OF THE BUTBUT TRIBE WITH THE END VIEW OF IDENTIFYING NECESSARY LEGISLATIONS THAT WILL PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES TO THEIR COMMUNITY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, CULTURE AND TRADITIONS

RESOLUTION URGING THE PROPER SENATE COMMITTEE TO CONDUCT AN INQUIRY IN AID OF LEGISLATION INTO A LAND DISPUTE INVOLVING THE MANOBO-PULANGIHON INDIGENOUS CULTURAL COMMUNITY'S ANCESTRAL DOMAIN IN THE PROVINCE OF BUKIDNON WHICH RESULTED IN GUNSHOT INJURIES TO 5 PEOPLE

AN ACT ACCORDING OFFICIAL STATUS AND LEGAL RECOGNITION TO TRIBAL PEACE PACT HOLDERS IN THE PROVINCE OF KALINGA AND OTHER AREAS WITH SIMILAR PRACTICE AS PERSONS IN AUTHORITY IN THEIR OWN TRIBAL JURISDICTIONS, AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-TWO OF ACT NUMBERED THIRTY-EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE SENATE COMMITTEES ON JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS, AND CULTURAL COMMUNITIES TO CONDUCT AN INQUIRY, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, ON THE ROOT CAUSES OF INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT OF INDIGENOUS CULTURAL COMMUNITIES (ICCS)/INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S (IPS) WITH THE END IN VIEW OF ENACTING LEGISLATION TO UPHOLD RIGHTS OF INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS (IDPS)

AN ACT CREATING AND ESTABLISHING THE CENTER FOR STUDIES ON INDIGENOUS CULTURAL COMMUNITIES, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE APPROPRIATE SENATE COMMITTEE TO CONDUCT AN INVESTIGATION, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, INTO THE VARIOUS ISSUES OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OR INDIGENOUS CULTURAL COMMUNITIES WITH THE END VIEW OF CRAFTING NECESSARY AMENDMENTS TO REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8371, OR THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES RIGHTS ACT OF 1997, TO STRENGTHEN THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OR INDIGENOUS CULTURAL COMMUNITIES

AN ACT CREATING THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON MUSLIM FILIPINOS DEFINING ITS POWERS, FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

A RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE APPROPRIATE SENATE COMMITTEE/S TO CONDUCT AN INQUIRY, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, INTO THE ALLEGED VIOLATION OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S RIGHTS ACT (IPRA), PARTICULARLY THE PROVISION ON THE FREE PRIOR AND INFORMED CONSENT, RELATIVE TO THE RENEWAL OF AN INDUSTRIAL FOREST MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT (IFMA) IN LAKE SEBU, SOUTH COTABATO, WHICH RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF EIGHT (8) LUMADS, WITH THE END IN VIEW OF FORMULATING POSSIBLE AMENDMENTS TO THE LAW TO STRENGTHEN THE PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

AN ACT AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 122-A, AS AMENDED, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE ACT CREATING THE OFFICE ON MUSLIM AFFAIRS

RESOLUTION URGING THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL JUSTICE, WELFARE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT, AND OTHER APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES TO CONDUCT A COMPENDIOUS INQUIRY AND REVIEW, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, ON THE IMPLEMENTATION AND REALIZATION OF THE ENTIRE GOVERNMENT EFFORTS ON THE 1991 MT. PINATUBO ERUPTION CITING THAT 27-YEARS AFTER THERE ARE STILL AFFECTED COMMUNITIES, IN PARTICULAR, THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES STRUGGLING IN EXTREMELY DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES AFTER THE DEVASTATION

AN ACT CREATING AND ESTABLISHING THE CENTER FOR STUDIES ON INDIGENOUS CULTURAL COMMUNITIES, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE APPROPRIATE SENATE COMMITTEE TO CONDUCT AN INQUIRY, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, INTO THE ALLEGED LAND GRABBING IN BORACAY, WITH THE END IN VIEW OF ENSURING THAT REHABILITATION EFFORTS DURING THE CLOSURE WILL NOT PREJUDICE THE PENDING CLAIMS OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

AN ACT ESTABLISHING FOREST MANAGEMENT, UTILIZATION, CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION CENTERS IN PROVINCES INHABITED PREDOMINANTLY BY MEMBERS OF INDIGENOUS CULTURAL COMMUNITIES AND UPLAND FAMILIES

RESOLUTION URGING A REVIEW OF STATE POLICIES, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, WITH REGARD TO THE BADJAOS, TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THE INDIGENOUS GROUP'S APPARENT SOCIETAL EXCLUSION AND DESIGNATION AS A SUBORDINATE SOCIAL STATUS, WITH THE INTENTION OF HELPING THE COMMUNITY IN LIVELIHOOD AND IMPROVING THEIR CULTURAL AND SOCIAL WELL-BEING

AN ACT AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 122-A, AS AMENDED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 295, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE ACT CREATING THE OFFICE ON MUSLIM AFFAIRS

RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE PROPER SENATE COMMITTEE, TO CONDUCT AN INQUIRY IN AID OF LEGISLATION, ON THE REPORTED NEED TO PREVENT THE EXPANSION OF VEGETABLE GARDENS OVER PROTECTED AREAS OF MOUNT STO. TOMAS, WHICH COULD LEAD TO FOREST DESTRUCTION AND THE POISONING OF NEARBY WATER SOURCES

AN ACT TO PRESCRIBE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PILOT TRIBAL COMMUNITIES AND/OR HOUSING IN EACH AND EVERY REGION IN THE PHILIPPINES, INCLUDING METRO MANILA, WHICH SHALL SERVE AS MODEL HUMAN SETTLEMENTS THAT WILL ADHERE, TO THE EXTENT PRACTICABLE, TO THE CULTURE AND TRADITIONS OF THE NATIONAL TRIBAL COMMUNITIES, WHILE PROVIDING THE BASIC CONVENIENCES OF MODERN LIVING, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON CULTURAL COMMUNITIES AND OTHER APPROPRIATE SENATE COMMITTEE/S TO CONDUCT AN OMNIBUS STUDY AND EVENTUAL UPDATING, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, OF EXISTING POLICIES CONCERNING CULTURAL HERITAGE IN THE LIGHT OF THE REPORTED ROAD PROJECTS IN BENGUET WHICH ALLEGEDLY DESECRATED RECOGNIZED BURIAL CAVES OF THE TRIBES OF IBALOY, KANKANAEY AND THE KALANGAYA IN THE CORDILLERA

AN ACT GRANTING THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES (NCIP) AN ADDITIONAL TEN (10) YEARS WITHIN WHICH TO TAKE APPROPRIATE LEGAL ACTION FOR THE CANCELLATION OF OFFICIALLY DOCUMENTED TITLES WHICH WERE ACQUIRED ILLEGALLY, AS PROVIDED UNDER SECTION 64 OF REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8371 OTHERWISE KNOWN AS AN ACT TO RECOGNIZE, PROTECT AND PROMOTE THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS CULTURAL COMMUNITIES/ INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, CREATING THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ESTABLISHING IMPLEMENTING MECHANISMS, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE PROPER SENATE COMMITTEE TO CONDUCT AN INQUIRY, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, ON THE REPORT THAT CONGRESS NEEDS TO REVIEW THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S RIGHTS LAW

AN ACT AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 122-A, AS AMENDED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 295 OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE ACT CREATING THE OFFICE OF THE MUSLIM AFFAIRS

RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE PROPER SENATE COMMITTEE TO CONDUCT AN INQUIRY, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, ON THE REPORT THAT INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ARE URGING THE SCRAPPING OF REPUBLIC ACT NO. 942, ALSO KNOWN AS THE MINING ACT OF 1995

AN ACT AMENDING SECTION 4 OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 122-A, AS AMENDED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 295 OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE ACT CREATING THE OFFICE ON MUSLIM AFFAIRS

RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE PROPER SENATE COMMITTEE TO CONDUCT AN INQUIRY, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, ON THE REPORT THAT 47 IRAYA MANGYAN TRIBES WILL BE DISPLACED DUE TO THE PROPOSED LANDFILL PROJECT IN PUERTO GALERA

AN ACT CREATING THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON MUSLIM FILIPINOS, DEFINING ITS POWERS, FUNCTIONS, AND RESPONSIBILITIES AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE PROPER SENATE COMMITTEE TO CONDUCT AN INQUIRY, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, ON THE UNITED NATIONS REPORT THAT MILITARIZATION CONTINUES TO DISPLACE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN MINDANAO

AN ACT PROVIDING ACCESS TO NDIGENOUS CULTURAL COMMUNITIES/INDIGENOUS PEOPLES TO VARIOUS INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY

RESOLUTION URGING THE APPROPRIATE COMMITTEE/S TO CONDUCT AN INQUIRY, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, INTO THE VERACITY OF THE REPORTED HARASSMENT, KILLINGS, FORCED EVACUATIONS AND DISPOSSESSION OF ANCESTRAL LANDS, AMONG OTHERS, IN THE COMMUNITIES AND TRIBAL SCHOOLS IN THE LUMAD AREAS IN MINDANAO, WITH THE END GOALS OF IMMEDIATELY PUTTING AN END TO IT, METING OUT THE APPROPRIATE SANCTIONS TO THOSE LIABLE AND FORMULATING LEGISLATIVE MEASURES PROTECTING, FURTHERING AND IMPROVING THE WELFARE AND WELL-BEING OF VARIOUS INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND TRIBES IN THE PHILIPPINES

AN ACT PROHIBITING DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PERSONS ON ACCOUNT OF ETHNIC ORIGIN AND/OR RELIGIOUS BELIEF

RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE PROPER SENATE COMMITTEES TO INVESTIGATE, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, THE REPORTED HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AGAINST INDIGENOUS CULTURAL COMMUNITIES/INDIGENOUS PEOPLES (ICCS/IPS) IN MINDANAO PERPETRATED BY ELEMENTS OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE PHILIPPINES AND PARAMILITARY GROUPS

AN ACT CREATING THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON MUSLIM FILIPINOS DEFINING ITS POWERS, FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE APPROPRIATE SENATE COMMITTEE TO CONDUCT AN INVESTIGATION, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, INTO THE POSSIBLE CASE OF EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLING OF ALTERNATIVE LEARNING CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL AND LIVELIHOOD DEVELOPMENT (ALCADEV) EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR EMERITO SAMARCA, MANOBO LUMAD LEADER DIONEL CAMPOS AND DATU JUVELLO SINZO, THAT TOOK PLACE ON SEPTEMBER 1, 2015 IN BARANGAY DIATAGON, LIANGA, SURIGAO DEL SUR, ALLEGEDLY PERPETRATED BY MEMBERS OF THE PHILIPPINE ARMY AND A LOCAL PARAMILITARY GROUPS

AN ACT PROHIBITING DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PERSONS ON ACCOUNT OF ETHNIC ORIGIN AND/OR RELIGIOUS BELIEF

RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE PROPER SENATE COMMITTEE TO CONDUCT AN INQUIRY, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, ON THE REPORT THAT A SCHOOL HEAD AND TWO LUMAD LEADERS WERE KILLED BY PARAMILITARY GUNMEN IN SURIGAO DEL SUR

AN ACT TO PRESCRIBE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PILOT TRIBAL COMMUNITIES AND/OR HOUSING IN EACH AND EVERY REGION IN THE PHILIPPINES, INCLUDING METRO MANILA, WHICH SHALL SERVE AS MODEL HUMAN SETTLEMENTS THAT WILL ADHERE, TO THE EXTENT PRACTICABLE, TO THE CULTURE AND TRADITIONS OF THE NATIONAL TRIBAL COMMUNITIES, WHILE PROVIDING THE BASIC CONVENIENCES OF MODERN LIVING, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE PROPER SENATE COMMITTEE TO CONDUCT AN INQUIRY, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, ON THE REPORT THAT 800 LUMAD SCHOOLCHILDREN ARE AMONG EVACUEES IN SURIGAO DEL SUR DUE TO THE OPERATION OF PARAMILITARY GROUPS

AN ACT GRANTING THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES (NCIP) A NEW TEN (10) YEAR PERIOD WITHIN WHICH TO TAKE APPROPRIATE LEGAL ACTION FOR THE CANCELLATION OF OFFICIALLY DOCUMENTED TITLES WHICH WERE ILLEGALLY ACQUIRED, AS PROVIDED UNDER SECTION 64 OF REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8371, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS AN ACT TO RECOGNIZE, PROTECT AND PROMOTE THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS CULTURAL COMMUNITIES/ INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, CREATING THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, ESTABLISHING IMPLEMENTING MECHANISMS, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE PROPER SENATE COMMITTEE TO CONDUCT AN INQUIRY, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, ON THE GRANTING TO THE BUGKALOT/ILONGOT CULTURAL COMMUNITIES OF PERCENTAGE SHARES IN THE PROCEEDS OF THE CASECNAN MULTI-PURPOSE IRRIGATION AND POWER PROJECT

AN ACT CREATING AND ESTABLISHING THE CENTER FOR STUDIES ON INDIGENOUS CULTURAL COMMUNITIES, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE PROPER SENATE COMMITTEE TO CONDUCT AN INQUIRY, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, ON THE REPORT THAT 86 LUMAD FAMILIES HAVE FLED THEIR HOMES IN AGUSAN DEL SUR AMID ATTACKS FROM COMMUNIST REBELS

AN ACT CREATING THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON MUSLIM FILIPINOS DEFINING ITS POWERS, FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE COMMITTEE ON CULTURAL COMMUNITIES TO CONDUCT AN INQUIRY, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, ON THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF REDUCING EMISSIONS FROM DEFORESTATION AND FOREST DEGRADATION (REDD) PROGRAMMED TO THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES

AN ACT CREATING THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON MUSLIM FILIPINOS DEFINING ITS POWERS, FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

RESOLUTION URGING THE COMMITTEE ON CULTURAL COMMUNITIES AND COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS TO CONDUCT AN INQUIRY, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, TO DETERMINE WHETHER SENATE CONCURRENCE IN THE RATIFICATION OF INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION CONVENTION NO. 169, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE INDIGENOUS AND TRIBAL PEOPLE'S CONVENTION, 1989, TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION ITS BENEFITS AND LEGAL, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS GIVEN THE PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES AND THE EXISTING INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S RIGHTS ACT, WOULD SERVE THE INTERESTS OF OUR COUNTRY

AN ACT ESTABLISHING FOREST MANAGEMENT, UTILIZATION, CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION CENTERS IN PROVINCES INHABITED PREDOMINANTLY BY MEMBERS OF INDIGENOUS CULTURAL COMMUNITIES AND UPLAND FAMILIES