AN ACT REQUIRING EVERY OFFICER AND ENLISTED PERSONNEL OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE PHILIPPINES TO UNDERGO AN ORIENTATION COURSE ON THE CULTURE, LANGUAGE, DIALECT, WAY OF LIVING, HABIT, TRADITION AND THE LIKE OF THE CULTURAL COMMUNITIES WHERE THEY ARE DEPLOYED OR TO BE POSTED

RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE COMMITTEE ON CULTURAL COMMUNITIES AND MUSLIM AFFAIRS TO INVESTIGATE, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, THE JOINT MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT (JMA) BETWEEN THE CLARK DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (CDC), NATIONAL COMMISSION ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES (NCIP), AND THE TRIBONG AYTA ENTERED INTO ON DECEMBER 6, 2007 CONCERNING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CLARK SUB-ZONE

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

RESOLUTION EXPRESSING SUPPORT FOR AND REAFFIRMING THE CONTINUING RECOGNITION BY THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES OF THE SULTANATE OF SULU AS A LEADING AND UNIFYING INSTITUTION OF THE INDIGENOUS CULTURAL COMMUNITIES IN THE SULU ARCHIPELAGO, ITS DEPENDENCIES, TERRITORIES IN NORTH BORNEO, AND OTHER HISTORICALLY AND LEGALLY LINKED AREAS, AND URGING ALL RELEVANT BRANCHES AND AGENCIES OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES TO DO CERTAIN NECESSARY AND USEFUL ACTS TO FURTHER SUPPORT THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT OF THE INDIGENOUS CULTURAL COMMUNITIES TO PRESERVE THE CULTURE, TRADITIONS, AND INSTITUTIONS OF THE SULTANATE OF SULU AND ENSURE THE LONG TERM ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL WELL-BEING OF THE PEOPLE

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING AND COMMENDING VICTORIA TAULI-CORPUZ FOR BEING NAMED AS UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S RIGHTS

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

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

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

RESOLUTION EXPRESSING THE FULL SUPPORT AND ACTIVE PARTICIPATION OF THE SENATE OF THE PHILIPPINES IN THE OBSERVANCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF WORLD'S INDEGENOUS PEOPLE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE PROPER SENATE COMMITTEE TO CONDUCT AN INQUIRY, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, ON THE ALLEGATIONS FROM AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL THAT INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN MINING COMMUNITIES IN SURIGAO DEL NORTE ARE AT RISK OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS DUE TO THE PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT'S PLAN OF DEPLOYING CIVILIAN MILITIAS TO AUGMENT SECURITY AT PRIVATE MINING OPERATIONS AS A RESPONSE TO THE RECENT ATTACKS FROM FORCES FROM THE NEW PEOPLE'S ARMY

RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE COMMITTEES ON ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES; AND CULTURAL COMMUNITIES TO INQUIRE, LOOK INTO AND INVESTIGATE, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, THE ALLEGED LARGE-SCALE ILLEGAL MINING OPERATIONS IN LA FRATERNIDAD, TUBAY, AGUSAN DEL NORTE BY A CERTAIN SR METALS, INC. WITHOUT FIRST SECURING THE REQUIRED CONSENT FROM THE AFFECTED INDIGENOUS PEOPLE (IP) WITHIN THE COVERED ANCESTRAL DOMAIN LAND BEING EXPLOITED AS EMBODIED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF R.A. NO. 8371 OR THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE REFORM ACT (IPRA), WITH THE END IN VIEW OF DETERMINING IF THERE WERE EXPLICIT VIOLATIONS OF THE LAW AND DEPRIVATION OF THE RIGHTFUL SHARE OF CONCERNED INDIGENOUS CULTURAL COMMUNITY (ICC) TO THE MINERAL RESOURCES EXTRACTED FROM THE TRIBE'S ANCESTRAL DOMAIN

RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND OTHER APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES TO INQUIRE AND LOOK INTO, IN THE SEAT FOR SECTORAL REPRESENTATIVES FOR WOMEN, AGRICULTURAL OR INDUSTRIAL WORKERS AND OTHER SECTORS SUCH AS THE URBAN POOR, INDIGENOUS CULTURAL COMMUNITIES OR DISABLED PERSONS IN THE CITY AND MUNICIPAL SANGGUNIANS AS MANDATED BY THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE OF 1991 THUS, DEPRIVING THEIR RIGHTS TO BE HEARD AND FURTHER ITS INTERESTS IN THE SOCIETY

RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE COMMITTEE ON CULTURAL COMMUNITIES TO CONDUCT AN INQUIRY, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, INTO THE CONTINUING DISPLACEMENT AND HARASSMENT OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN THE PROVINCES OF SURIGAO DEL SUR, AGUSAN DEL SUR, DAVAO ORIENTAL AND COMPOSTELA VALLEY DUE TO THE RAMPANT LOGGING OPERATIONS OF PICOP RESOURCES, INC., WITH THE END IN VIEW OF ENACTING REMEDIAL LEGISLATION

RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE COMMITTEE ON CULTURAL COMMUNITIES TO INVESTIGATE, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, THE IMPENDING DISPLACEMENT OF THE MANOBO CULTURAL COMMUNITY FROM SAMAR ISLAND BY REASON OF THE RECENT EXTENSION OF THE TIMBER LICENSING AGREEMENT OF BASEY WOOD INDUSTRIES INC. COVERING PORTIONS OF THE DECLARED PROTECTED AREA OF SAMAR ISLAND NATURAL PARK

RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE COMMITTEE ON CULTURAL COMMUNITIES TO INVESTIGATE, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, THE MINING EXPLORATION ACTIVITY IN THE DECLARED PROTECTED SEASCAPE AND LANDSCAPE IN PUJADA BAY, COVERING THE VILLAGE OF MACAMBOL IN THE CAPITAL CITY OF MATI, AND MT. HAMIGUITAN IN DAVAO ORIENTAL, THAT THREATENS THE LIFE AND LIVELIHOOD OF THE MANDAYA TRIBE RESIDING IN THE AREA AND TO REVIEW THE UNCHECKED ISSUANCE OF THE MINERAL PRODUCTION SHARING AGREEMENT (MPSA) EVEN WITH QUESTIONABLE FREE PRIOR INFORMED CONSENT (FPIC) FROM THE AFFECTED INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON CULTURAL COMMUNITIES TO CONDUCT AN INVESTIGATION, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, INTO THE DISPLACEMENT AND HARASSMENT OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN NUEVA VIZCAYA BECAUSE OF THE LAND-CLEARING AND EXPLORATION OPERATIONS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MINING FIRM OCEANAGOLD PHILIPPINES, INC.

RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE PROPER SENATE COMMITTEE TO CONDUCT AN INQUIRY, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, ON THE ALLEGED HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS FACED BY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE COMMITTEE ON CULTURAL COMMUNITIES; ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; AND TOURISM, TO CONDUCT AN INQUIRY, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, ON THE ALLEGED DISPLACEMENT OF THE INDIGENOUS ATI TRIBE OF BORACAY ISLAND, MALAY, AKLAN, DUE TO THE REPORTED RAMPANT SELLING OF PARCELS OF LAND FORMING PART OF THEIR ANCESTRAL BORACAY ISLAND AS A PRIME TOURIST ZONE