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    Indigenous peoples have unique cultures and relationships with the environment that are distinct from dominant societies. They share problems related to protecting their rights as distinct peoples, yet throughout history their rights have been violated. While indigenous lands contain much of the world's biodiversity and natural resources, these lands are often taken, damaged, or polluted by governments and companies without consent. Two examples are deforestation affecting the Batak tribe in the Philippines and mining operations in Palawan impacting Bataks without their approval. Poverty is especially hard for indigenous people to overcome due to discrimination, destruction of ancestral lands, and governments prioritizing profits over indigenous rights and ways of life.

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    Indigenous peoples have unique cultures and relationships with the environment that are distinct from dominant societies. They share problems related to protecting their rights as distinct peoples, yet throughout history their rights have been violated. While indigenous lands contain much of the world's biodiversity and natural resources, these lands are often taken, damaged, or polluted by governments and companies without consent. Two examples are deforestation affecting the Batak tribe in the Philippines and mining operations in Palawan impacting Bataks without their approval. Poverty is especially hard for indigenous people to overcome due to discrimination, destruction of ancestral lands, and governments prioritizing profits over indigenous rights and ways of life.

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    Indigenous peoples have unique cultures and relationships with the environment that are distinct from dominant societies. They share problems related to protecting their rights as distinct peoples, yet throughout history their rights have been violated. While indigenous lands contain much of the world's biodiversity and natural resources, these lands are often taken, damaged, or polluted by governments and companies without consent. Two examples are deforestation affecting the Batak tribe in the Philippines and mining operations in Palawan impacting Bataks without their approval. Poverty is especially hard for indigenous people to overcome due to discrimination, destruction of ancestral lands, and governments prioritizing profits over indigenous rights and ways of life.

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    Indigenous peoples have unique cultures and relationships with the environment that are distinct from dominant societies. They share problems related to protecting their rights as distinct peoples, yet throughout history their rights have been violated. While indigenous lands contain much of the world's biodiversity and natural resources, these lands are often taken, damaged, or polluted by governments and companies without consent. Two examples are deforestation affecting the Batak tribe in the Philippines and mining operations in Palawan impacting Bataks without their approval. Poverty is especially hard for indigenous people to overcome due to discrimination, destruction of ancestral lands, and governments prioritizing profits over indigenous rights and ways of life.

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    Indigenous peoples are inheritors and practitioners of unique cultures and ways of

    relating to people and the environment. They have retained social, cultural, economic and
    political characteristics that are distinct from those of the dominant societies in which they live.
    Despite their cultural differences, indigenous peoples from around the world share common
    problems related to the protection of their rights as distinct peoples.

    Indigenous peoples have sought recognition of their identities, way of life and their right
    to traditional lands, territories and natural resources for years, yet throughout history, their rights
    have always been violated. The land that Indigenous Peoples live on is home to over 80% of our
    planet’s biodiversity and rich in natural resources, such as oil, gas, timber and minerals.
    However, these lands are routinely appropriated, sold, leased or simply plundered and polluted
    by governments and private companies. In the case study number three which is about the
    deforestation in the Philippines, the Batak tribes are affected. The conservation schemes of the
    government such as the ban on shifting cultivation and declaration of the protected areas within
    their ancestral lands has been causing food shortage, malnutrition and poverty among the said
    tribe. We can see in this situation that the rights of the IPs are being violated by the government
    or in this situation there is government indifference where in it is the duty of the government to
    protect the indigenous people. But we can see they are not instead they are those ones who are
    discriminating and cutting the rights of the IPs. Another one which shows the violation of rights
    of the indigenous peoples is the mining operations that is happening in Palawan area where in the
    Bataks are complaining that even they didn’t give their consent the Philippine government still
    urged mining companies to extract mineral resources in Palawan. The governments reason which
    the mining companies would create more jobs and opportunities to the affected area of Palawan
    doesn’t apply to the Batak tribe since they are poorly educated and their skills doesn’t match the
    mining companies required skills. Instead of helping the Batak the government just worsen and
    destroyed the ancestral land of the Batak. Indigenous peoples today, are arguably among the
    most disadvantaged and vulnerable groups of people in the world. Indigenous Peoples face even
    greater marginalization, poverty, disease and violence but with the equal rights provided by the
    government and if the voice of the Indigenous peoples are heard it is not possible that poverty
    would be eradicated.

    Poverty has been more widespread and harder to overcome for the Indigenous people
    because of the governments indifference. The ancestral lands of Indigenous peoples that they
    have been protecting have been destroyed which affected their ways of life.

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