Victoria Tauli-Corpuz

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

[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.

[12] 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, Bongbong Marcos.