Indigenous Cultural Communities/Indiaenous People (ICC/IPs) Indigenous people continue to experience abuses involving arbitrary detention, persecution, killing of community representatives, coercion, torture, demolition of houses, involuntary displacements, rape, and disruption of their rights to food and shelter. These are but selected instances of discrimination in Philippine society that this measure aims to mitigate or eliminate. Its swift approval is therefore earnestly sought. SONNY ANGARA