ANNEX 1 “Violence Against Lesbians, Bisexual Women, and Trans People in the Philippines” available at https://www.outrightinternational.org/sites/default/files/Violence-against-lbtpeople-Philippines.pdf is a written submission of OutRight Action International (formerly known as International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission) to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women Annual Communications Procedure, August 1, 2015. ANNEX 2 “Dangerous Lives: Being LGBT In Muslim Mindanao” available at http://outragemag.com/dangerous-lives-lgbt-muslim-mindanao/ is a 2013 report that quotes a lesbian from the Tausug or Suluk ethnic group from Jolo, capital of Sulu Province in Southwest Philippines. She is president of a lesbian organization in Jolo. The report stated the following: (1) In 2010, there was a declaration by local government officials to ban gays and lesbians saying, “Lesbians will be brought to the countryside for military training and gays will be hanged.” Gays and lesbians who do not agree with the training will be killed right there and then. She said that families who had no gay and lesbian members were very supportive of this declaration; (2) One gay person was hanged in Asturias. There was no investigation done by the police. There were other cases where bodies were found beheaded or missing body parts. She said that these were not documented so as not to not tarnish the image of Jolo; (3) In the countryside, there were soldiers who would search for gay individuals at roadside checkpoints. (4) There were “corrective rapes” of lesbians in Jolo. There was a lesbian whose rape was arranged by her father. She is now married and has six children, and she has isolated herself from her lesbian friends. Another lesbian was almost raped and this led to her committing suicide. Many lesbians have fled from their homes and now live with their friends. 14