United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Filipino Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, visited Australia recently and made some damning statements about the treatment of indigenous peoples under Dutuerte, said Murphy. “Duterte has put her name under the list of about 400 people who he is alleging ...

Earlier, the Department of Justice (DOJ) came out with a list of alleged officers and members of communist groups in the country. The list of over 600 individuals, which includes United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Victoria "Vicky" Tauli-Corpuz, was allegedly part of DOJ's ...

Watch also in iWantv or TFC.tv. The United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples believes the government's move to label her as a terrorist is an act of retaliation after she issued a warning on the effects of martial law in Mindanao. - The World Tonight, ANC, April 9, 2018. Share.

In December last year, Tauli-Corpuz and another UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples and internally displaced people Cecilia Jimenez-Damary, claimed of supposed human rights abuses against indigenous and internally displaced peoples in Mindanao. Their claim against the ...

MILAN, Italy - A United Nations special rapporteur who was one of more than 600 people that the Philippine government wants to be declared as ... Speaking at the Human Rights Festival held in Milan on March 25, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, U.N. special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples and a ...

In the Philippines, the government is under fire for filing a court petition seeking the declaration of more than 600 people, including activists and a United Nations special rapporteur, as "terrorists". Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, the U.N. special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, has denied this and said ...

... government tagged UN special rapporteur Victoria Tauli Corpuz and indigenous peoples' rights advocate Joan Carling as "terrorists." Corpuz is UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples while Carling is a focal person for the Indigenous Peoples Major Group for Sustainable Development.

This refers to a news article titled, “Palace: 'Terrorist' tag on UN special rapporteur based on intel” (3/10/18). Victoria Tauli Corpuz, UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, is not a terrorist. She is an indigenous peoples human rights activist. The Philippines is recognized all over the world ...

Ms. Tauli-Corpuz has a long history of defending indigenous rights, having helped draft the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 1993, and is currently UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, holding the position since 2014. Ms Carling is co-founder of the Cordillera ...

Indigenous leaders and UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Ms. Tauli-Corpuz have been put on a terror list, issued by Philippines State Prosecutor, February 21st. “The Philippine governments regularly and increasingly threatens and harasses indigenous peoples. But this is taking ...

LA PAZ -- Bolivian President Evo Morales departed today to New York from Lima, to attend the 17th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues. According to the website of the mechanism, the meeting will take place from tomorrow 16 to the 27th of this month at the UN ...

UN special rapporteur for the rights of indigenous peoples Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, in an earlier interview with Eco-Business, pointed out that there are project developers who fail to obtain the free prior and informed consent of the communities before they proceed. “These projects, if not approached from the ...

Among those on the list is Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples at the United Nations. Tauli-Corpuz, a known advocate for the rights of Philippine tribal people, denied the allegation, calling the list "baseless, malicious, and irresponsible." The Department of Justice ...

“The UN Declaration on the rights of Indigenous Peoples is already there. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is there. In the Philippines we have the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act. We have a lot of legal frameworks in place but the problem is enforcement,” she said. Another threat to indigenous ...