Publications

  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...

  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...

    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...