Publications

This shadow report is submitted by In Defense of Human Rights and Dignity Movement (IDEFEND) to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR). On February 18 to 19, the Philippines will be under review by the UN Committee on ESCR in Geneva Switzerland, during its...

   

LILAK, in collaboration with indigenous women, documented the traditional farming practices of Indigenous women in the Philippines. These stories from Bukidnon, Mindoro, and North Cotabato bear witness to the rural and indigenous women’s valuable contribution to sustainable solutions to food...

To mark the International Day of Action for Women’s Health, we, in LILAK, officially launch our research study, Exploring the Nexus of Indigenous Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and Climate Change. This scoping study was conducted in 2023 in partnership with the Asian...

  This shadow report submission to the 86th session of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) highlights the different forms of attacks and discrimination against indigenous women human rights defenders as they assert and defend their rights to...

She Said She Said is an intergenerational storytelling among indigenous women human rights defenders. Celebrate the stories of courage, commitment and sheroism of indigenous women in defending their land, territories, communities, and their rights. The stories were told by the Teduray and...

  Around the world, communities impacted by extractive industries—mining, drilling, logging—face multiple and intersecting forms of violence. That violence is gendered in its operation and in whom it benefits and harms. Building Power In Crisis explores the breadth of structural violence...

This is an excerpt of the Sectoral Monitoring of Indigenous Women and Girls in the time of COVID-19 Pandemic, a research project jointly conducted by the Center for Gender Equality and Women Human Rights of the Commission on Human Rights and LILAK (Purple Action for Indigenous Women’s Rights)...

The ten countries which are the focus of this report have each evolved different political and legal systems which enable, hinder or prevent, in different degrees, their citizens to exercise the Right to Dissent. In approaching potential writers for each Country Report, there were varying...

First things first - this book is about women and gender and its purpose is to showcase what has constituted working with women, girls, and LGBTQI individuals in the 12 critical areas flagged by the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action. Behind the enormous heterogeneity of their concerns, this...

The pandemic has made life harder for indigenous women, who are often the main caregivers in their communities. They now have more responsibility for their families' food, health, and well-being due to limited access to social services. This situation has increased their anxiety about their...

    Mining is one of the major industries aggressively being pursued by the Philippine government, which promises big economic contribution and generation of employment. However, through the years, these hopes are mired not only by environmental degradation by also by human rights violations...

    Shadow Report on Indigenous Women and Mining in the Philippines presented at the 64th Session of the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in Geneva, Switzerland in July 2016.  

Mining has been thoroughly discussed and debated on from the framework of economics, resource management and environmental impacts. The mining industry can engage discussions on these, citing models that can address issues of profits and profit-sharing, and alleged sustainable mining practices....

Ang batas ay dapat para sa lahat. Ang karapatan ng lahat ay dapat pantay-pantay na napoprotektahan ng batas. Subalit, kadalasan, ang mga batas ay may pagkiling sa interes ng mga nagiging kabahagi ng sistema ng paggawa ng batas – mismong uri at pangekonomiyang katayuan ng mga mambabatas, mga...

In the first National Indigenous Women Gathering in 2011, held in Koronadal, the 54 indigenous women collectively discussed their local situation within their families, and their communities. They talked about the increasing hunger, the difficulty in sending their children to school, the lack of...