Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
3rd United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
In office
2 June 2014 – 31 April 2020
Preceded byJames Anaya
( United States)
Succeeded byJosé Francisco Calí Tzay
( Guatemala)
Chairperson, United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
In office
May 2005 – April 2010
Preceded byOle Henrik Magga
( Norway)
Succeeded byCarlos Mamani Condori
( Peru)
Personal details
Born (1952-10-19) October 19, 1952
Besao, Mt. Province, Philippines
Alma materUniversity of the Philippines Manila
AwardsGabriela Silang Awards (2009)

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz is a Filipino development consultant and an international indigenous activist of Kankana-ey Igorot ethnicity.[1][2] From 2014 to 2020, she served as the third United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Background

She graduated from the Philippine Science High School in Diliman, Quezon City in 1969.[3] She completed her nursing degree at the UP College of Nursing, University of the Philippines Manila in 1976.[1]

Career

Activism

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.[4]

United Nations

Tauli-Corpuz has served as chairperson of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (2005-2010)[4] and was the rapporteur for the Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations.[2][5]

On 2 June 2014, she assumed responsibilities as the third UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.[6] As UN special rapporteur, she was tasked to investigate alleged violations of indigenous peoples rights and promote the implementation of international standards concerning the rights of indigenous peoples.[2] She benefited from the support of the Ford Foundation through grants to the Tebtebba Foundation.[7] She continued to hold her special rapporteur position until March 2020.[8]

She is the indigenous and gender adviser to the Third World Network, a member of United Nations Development Programme Civil Society Organizations Advisory Committee[5] and a member of the World Future Council.

Tauli-Corpuz is one of the founders of Indigenous Peoples Rights International and one of the current (2022) co-directors of the organisation.[9][10]

Recognition

Tauli-Corpuz was the first recipient of the Gabriela Silang Award, conferred in 2009 by the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples.[11]

She was included in a list of ten people who had had important roles in scientific developments in 2021 compiled by the scientific journal Nature.[12]

Nobel Prize nomination

In February 2023, together with the Ecuadorian activist Juan Carlos Jintiach, Tauli-Corpuz was included in PRIO Director Henrik Urdal's shortlist of 2023 Nobel Peace Prize worthy candidates "for their non-violent struggle to protect and strengthen the rights of indigenous peoples."[13][14][15]

Human Rights Watch senior researcher in Asia, Carlos Conde, welcomed her inclusion in the Nobel Peace Prize shortlist, saying that harassment and enforced disappearances of Indigenous activists in the Philippines continues under Duterte's successor, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. "Her nomination alone will highlight the severe plight they have been experiencing and should prompt action by the international community," he said.[16]

References

  1. 1 2 Member Info UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 "OHCHR | Ms. Victoria Tauli Corpuz". www.ohchr.org. Archived from the original on 2016-03-26. Retrieved 2018-03-29.
  3. ↑ Philippine Science High School System#Social sciences
  4. 1 2 IUCN World Conservation Congress (Jeju 2012) forum sessions International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
  5. 1 2 Administrator. "Biographical Information". unsr.vtaulicorpuz.org. Retrieved 2018-03-29.
  6. ↑ James Anaya Victoria Tauli-Corpuz begins as new Special Rapporteur, 02 June 2014
  7. ↑ "Ford Foundation, Grant Database".
  8. ↑ "Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples". United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
  9. ↑ "The Global Board of Directors". IPRI. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  10. ↑ "Launching of the Indigenous Peoples Rights International-IPRI" (PDF). University of New South Wales. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  11. ↑ IP int’l activitist gets 1st Gabriela Silang award Northern Dispatch (nordis) Weekly, Northern Philippines. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
  12. ↑ "Nature's 10 Ten people who helped shape science in 2021". Nature. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
  13. ↑ "Nobel Peace Prize 2023: PRIO Director's Shortlist Announced". prio.org. 1 February 2023. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  14. ↑ "Nobel Peace Prize could honour contributions of activists". The Strait Times. 29 September 2023. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
  15. ↑ Gwladys Fouche and Ilze Filks (29 September 2023). "Nobel Peace Prize: Indigenous, women or green activists could win 2023 award". Reuters. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
  16. ↑ "A look at possible contenders for the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize". The Washington Post. 3 October 2023. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
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