Philippines: Displaced Ati People Are Rightful Owners of Land

Bishops in the Philippines are defending the right of return of the Ati people who have been displaced from their ancestral lands on the island of Boracay by property development. “The Ati are the rightful owners of the land,” who live there and earn their livelihood, said Bishop Valentin Dimoc.

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