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"Indigenous Peoples" shall likewise include peoples who are regarded as indigenous on
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account of their descent from the populations which inhabited the country, at the time of
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conquest or colonization, or at the time of inroads of non indigenous religions and cultures, or
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the establishment of present state boundaries, who retain some or all of their own social,
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economic, cultural and political institutions, but who may have been displaced from their
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traditional domains or who may have resettled outside their ancestral domains;
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i. "Political inclination" refers to a person's preference with regards to membership or
belief in a particular political party, organization or ideology.
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j. "Profiling" means relying on the prohibited grounds of discrimination in subjecting a
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person or group of persons to investigatory activities, which include unnecessary, unjustified,
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illegal, and degrading searches, questioning or other investigatory activities, in determining
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whether an individual is engaged in an activity presumed to be unlawful, immoral, or socially
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unacceptable.
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k. "Religious Belief" covers the profession or non-profession of religion or belief of one's
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choice that may be publicly or privately manifested in worship, observance, practice and
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teaching.
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I. "Sexual Orientation" refers to the direction of emotional sexual attraction or conduct.
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This can be towards people of the same sex (homosexual orientation), towards people of both
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sexes (bisexual orientation), towards neither, or towards people of the opposite sex
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(heterosexual orientation).
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m. "Social class" refers to groupings of individuals usually based on wealth, educational
attainment, occupation, income, and membership in a subculture or social network.
n. "Stigma" refers to the dynamic process of devaluation that significantly discredits an
individual in the eyes of others. When stigma is acted upon, the result is discrimination.
o. "Vulnerable communities" refers to communities or sectors that encounter stigma
and discrimination based on the grounds enumerated in Section 4.
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