Tribal community in this resort island has confirmed attendance to the national conference on Peace and Land Rights to be held at the University of the Philippines from November 14 to 15.
Rebecca Lozada, national coordinator of the Philippine Coalition for the International Criminal Court (PCICC) said that the national conference aims to strengthen the national discourse and policy advocacy on land rights issues in several areas in the country.
Also joining the conference are Commission on Human Rights chairperson Loretta Ann Rosales, Agrarian Reform Secretary Virgilio Delos Reyes and Zenaida Brigida Hamada of the National Commission on Indigenous Persons (NCIP).
The Boracay tribal community will be represented by its tribal leader Delsa Justo of the Boracay Ati Tribal Orgtanization (BATO).
Lozada said that PCICC is an organization of human rights organizations and advocates established in 2000 to support the ratification and implementation of the Roman Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
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