Victoria Tauli-Corpuz is a Filipino development consultant and an international indigenous activist of Kankana-ey

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UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Retrieved 13 April 2013. On 2 June 2014, she assumed responsibilities as the third UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.James Anay
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz begins as new Special Rapporteur, 02 June 2014
/ref> 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. She continued to hold her special rapporteur position until March 2020. She is the indigenous and gender adviser to the Third World Network, a member of United Nations Development Programme Civil Society Organizations Advisory Committee and a member of the

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. She was the first recipient of the Gabriela Silang Award, conferred in 2009 by the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples. Tauli-Corpuz has served as

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of the

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(2005-2010)IUCN World Conservation Congress (Jeju 2012) forum sessions
International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 13 April 2013. and was the rapporteur for the Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations. Tauli-Corpuz is one of the founders of Indigenous Peoples Rights International and one of the current (2022) co-directors of the organisation.

Background

She graduated from the Philippine Science High School in Diliman, Quezon City in 1969. Philippine Science High School System#Social sciences She completed her nursing degree at the UP College of Nursing,

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in 1976.

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.

Recognition

Tauli-Corpuz was included in a list of ten people who had had important roles in scientific developments in 2021 compiled by the scientific journal ''Nature.

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