MANILA, Philippines — The House committee on indigenous cultural communities and indigenous peoples has approved the issuance of a resolution calling on Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) and other agencies to cease activities inside the ancestral domains affected by Kaliwa Dam project.
The committee said any activities inside the affected ancestral domain shall be ceased in the absence of a completed or consummated Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) process with the indigenous communities in the area.
The FPIC is a specific right pertaining to indigenous peoples that allows them to give or withhold consent to a project that may affect them or the…
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