IP Summit – State of the Indigenous Cultural Communities/Indigenous Peoples Address

NCIP Chairperson Allen A. Capuyan presented the State of Indigenous Cultural Communities/Indigenous Peoples Address (SIIPA) during the IP Summit. It highlights the long and challenging journey of the Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines. The NCIP Chairperson mentioned that for the last 25 years, NCIP has shared that journey with the ICCs/IPs, through the legal mandates accorded by the 1987 Constitution and the enabling law passed in 1997, the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act or IPRA.