Victoria Tauli-Corpuz

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz is a development consultant and an international indigenous activist of Kankana-ey Igorot ethnicity.[1][2] On 2 June 2014, she assumed responsibilities as the third UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.[3] As UN special rapporteur, she is tasked to investigate alleged violations of indigenous peoples rights and promote the implementation of international standards concerning the rights of indigenous peoples.[2]

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
BornOctober 19, 1952
Besao, Mt. Province, Philippines
NationalityFilipino

She is the indigenous and gender adviser to the Third World Network, a member of United Nations Development Programme Civil Society Organizations Advisory Committee[4] and a member of the World Future Council.

She was the first recipient of the Gabriela Silang Award, conferred in 2009 by the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples.[5]

Tauli-Corpuz has served as chairperson of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (2005-2010)[6] and was the rapporteur for the Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations.[2][4]

Background

She graduated from the Philippine Science High School in Diliman, Quezon City in 1969.[7] She completed her nursing degree at the UP College of Nursing, University of the Philippines Manila in 1976.[1]

As an activist, she helped organize indigenous peoples on the community level to fight against the projects of then President Ferdinand Marcos. The indigenous peoples she organized helped stop the Chico River Hydroelectric Dam project, which would have inundated traditional villages, and the logging operations of Cellophil Resources Corporation on ancestral lands.[6]

References
  1. Member Info UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
  2. "OHCHR | Ms. Victoria Tauli Corpuz". www.ohchr.org. Archived from the original on 2016-03-26. Retrieved 2018-03-29.
  3. James Anaya Victoria Tauli-Corpuz begins as new Special Rapporteur, 02 June 2014
  4. Administrator. "Biographical Information". unsr.vtaulicorpuz.org. Retrieved 2018-03-29.
  5. IP int’l activitist gets 1st Gabriela Silang award Northern Dispatch (nordis) Weekly, Northern Philippines. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
  6. IUCN World Conservation Congress (Jeju 2012) forum sessions International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
  7. Philippine Science High School System#Social sciences
External video
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