food items such as blankets and malong. Hygiene kits such as toothbrush/toothpaste, soap, sanitary napkins, and tissue papers were also identified as needed. The National Commission on Muslim Filipinos has also called for additional donations of long clothing and prayer clothes for displaced Muslim women. Reports from community monitors have indicated that food and non-food relief assistance in the evacuation camps are insufficient to cover the needs of all the displaced persons. At the start of June 2017, almost 70 percent (70%) of its 201,785 population 15 – a composition of 96 barangays – or 140,155 residents have fled to neighbouring towns and cities since the conflict started and considerable damages specifically on properties were reported and monitored16. By the end of the month, there were 84,351 families or 389,366 persons displaced due to the conflict. All of whom came from all the 96 barangays of Marawi, 20 municipalities in Lanao del Sur, and 2 municipalities in Lanao de Norte (DSWD DROMIC). According to DSWD there were two (2) categories of IDPs. The 3,437 families or 16,070 people who were settling in 77 evacuation centers (see Appendix A). While the other are the “home-based” IDPS, who were 69,460 families or 333,919 people that were staying in their relatives or friends in Regions VII, X, XI, XII, CARAGA, ARMM, and in the Negros Island Region (NIR) (DSWD DROMIC). This situation have resulted to inaccuracies in accounting the actual number of IDPs, reported health situation in evacuation areas17, and various humanitarian and protection concerns. Amidst the intense armed situation in Marawi, rapid increase of affected IDPs, and glooming humanitarian crisis, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) scheduled an initial Joint Monitoring Mission on 1 to 5 July 2017. Following its mandate to undertake the investigation of all human rights violations; monitor the Philippine government’s compliance with international treaty obligations on human rights; and request assistance of government agencies in the performance of its functions, among other duties. This report is the culmination of the 5-day joint monitoring mission of the team; which was comprised of representatives from CHR Center for Crisis, Conflict and Humanitarian Protection (CHR-CCHP), CHR Child Rights Center (CHRCRC), CHR-Gender and Women Human Rights Center (CHR-GeWHRC), CHR Regions X and XII. This report seeks to highlight the situation and conditions of the IDPs – specifically the children, women and LGBTs – who were settling in five (5) key evacuation centers (ECs) located in Iligan City, Provinces of Lanao del Sur, and Lanao del Norte. To do this, the team employed multimethod and multi-sectoral form of research and inquiries to uncover the stories, struggles, anxieties, and grievances of the IDPs. Finally, to elucidate the direct and indirect consequences of disaster – such as conflict and displacement – the team used a combined framework of human-rights based approach and intersectional analysis to come up with various solutions and recommendations that helped alleviate burdens of the IDPs, particularly the most vulnerable group. Human Rights Framework As the national human rights institution which derived its international legal mandate from the international instruments and the 1987 Philippine Constitution to promote and protect human rights in the Philippines, the Commission on Human Rights is mandated to undertake the investigation of all human rights violations; monitor the Philippine government’s compliance with international treaty obligations on human rights; and request assistance of government agencies in the performance of its functions, among other duties. International Commitments The Philippines, after the adaptation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) of 1948, and the ratification of the seven (7) of the core treaties: International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, (ICRMW), and 15 16 17 See: Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) - 2015 Philippine Census See: Arguillas news article in MindaNews See: ABS-CBN News on DOH responds to evacuees 6