119 For CSOs and social movements: n n n Unite under a common goal and program of responding to the needs of rural poor communities. Organize and empower the rural poor to enable them to effectively defend their rights. Improve on existing reporting and protection mechanisms, and widely disseminate these so that they and the rural poor can utilize these in cases of violations of their rights. Sustain and strengthen non-violent struggle to hold rights violators accountable for their actions. m ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ANGOC expresses its gratitude to the CHR, particularly Commissioner Roberto Cadiz, Jesus Torres and the Economic-Social-Cultural Rights Center (ESCRC) for their openness to engage civil society organizations (CSOs) and their willingness to support CSO actions towards mainstreaming land rights as human rights. We also express our gratitude to the national government agencies who have provided information that formed part of this study: the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), the National Irrigation Administration (NIA), and the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP). We also thank CSOs who contributed to the data and the analysis of this study: Alternative Law Groups (ALG), Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM), Center for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (CARRD), Haribon Foundation, Kaisahan tungo sa Kaunlaran ng Kanayunan at Repormang Agraryo (Kaisahan), Land Matrix Initiative (LMI), Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center/Kasama sa Kalikasan/Friends of the Earth-Philippines (LRC/KsK/FOE-P), Mediator’s Network for Sustainable Peace (MedNet), Non-Timber Forest Products- Exchange Programme (NTFPEP), the Oblates of Notre Dame Hesed Foundation, Pambansang Kilusan ng mga Samahang Magsasaka (PAKISAMA), Plan International, Serve the Children and Older Persons Foundation, Tebtebba Foundation, Unbound, and Xavier Science Foundation (XSF). Special thanks to the community leaders who shared their stories during the Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Land Conflicts and Rights Defenders conducted last 30 October 2018: Sabang-Poocan Farmers and Fishermen Association, Inc. (SAPOFFA) from Caluya Island, Antique, and the Dumagat-Remontado Indigenous Peoples Organizations: Kolo Ka Koloy and Sukatan Lupang Ninuno from Montalban and Tanay, Rizal. Land Conflicts and Land Rights Defenders in the Philippines n