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Signed. October 29, 1997. Keywords. indigenous rights. Status: In force. The Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act of 1997 ( IPRA ), officially designated as Republic Act No. 8371, is a Philippine law that recognizes and promotes the rights of indigenous cultural communities and Indigenous peoples in the Philippines .
Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999 (Republic Act No. 8749) – designed to protect and preserve the environment and ensure the sustainable development of its natural resources Incentives for Regional Headquarters of Foreign Multinationals (Republic Act No. 8756) – The measure grants a host of incentives to multinational firms establishing their ...
This was continued by a series of peace talks and negotiations in Estrada administration. [24] The MILF, an Islamic group based in formed in 1977, seeks to be an independent Islamic state from the Philippines, and, despite the agreements, a sequence of terrorist attacks on the Philippine military and civilians still continued. [24]
The Taft Commission, also known as the Second Philippine Commission ( Filipino: Ikalawang Komisyon ng Pilipinas ), was established by United States President William McKinley on March 16, 1900, following the recommendations of the First Philippine Commission, using presidential war powers while the U.S. was engaged in the Philippine–American ...
Clockwise from top left: U.S. troops in Manila, Gregorio del Pilar and his troops around 1898, Americans guarding the Pasig River bridge in 1898, the Battle of Santa Cruz, Filipino soldiers at Malolos, the Battle of Quingua. Date. Philippine–American War: February 4, 1899 – July 4, 1902. (3 years, 2 months, 1 week and 5 days)[ i] Moro ...
The Moro conflict [37] [38] [39] was an insurgency in the Mindanao region of the Philippines which involved multiple armed groups. [40] [29] A decades-long peace process [37] [41] has resulted in various peace deals have been signed between the Philippine government and two major armed groups, the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) [42] and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), [43] but ...
The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) is a task force organized by the government of the Philippines in 2018 as part of its "Whole-of-Nation approach" to respond to and raise awareness about ongoing communist armed conflicts in the Philippines, [1] [2] after the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte formally terminated peace talks between the ...
Formal peace negotiations between the Government of the Philippines and the various armed groups involved in the Moro conflict [1] [2] [3] began in 1976 when the Government of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front first met to negotiate towards the 1976 Tripoli Agreement, and most recently reached a major milestone in the ratification of the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL ...