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View all search resultsAny climate agenda must involve indigenous peoples, who play a vital role in tacking global warning through the traditional wisdoms they have applied to managing their customary forests and lands, long before "climate change" entered the global lexicon.
This year's global day for indigenous peoples should serve as an occasion for reflection on how to recognize, include and incorporate these communities as equal partners in deliberative decision-making in determining not just their future, but also the country's future, as we are propelled headlong in this era of technologically driven transformation.
The President's public pledge last month to prioritize passage of the bill on protection for domestic workers presents an unheralded opportunity to break the cycle of invisibility and injustice and recognize domestic workers as an essential force in the economy.
As it stands, the government's housing policy is essentially displacement masquerading as development, and needs a complete overhaul by shifting the focus to low-income residents and their communities as agents, equal partners and coproducers of housing solutions, not mere beneficiaries.
The recent news on mining in Raja Ampat sounds the alarm on potential ecocide as a symptom of the government’s systemic, structural failure to protect our country's resources in line with its constitutional obligation to its people, including future generations.
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