cancellation of hearings.The continued clamp down by the government of human rights activists and the rampant red tagging and trumped up cases were also mentioned. Women IDPs Through the Commission’s Center for Crisis, Conflict, and Humanitarian Protection (CCHP) and the regional offices, continued human rights monitoring of IDPs was ensured. This included monitoring of IDPs in region IV as a result of the 2020 Taal eruption, IDPs in Marawi, Tacloban and Lianga. Continued monitoring by the CCHP and the Regional offices surfaced the gendered impact of the pandemic. This included loss of income due restricted mobility, the exacerbated impact of lack of or interrupted access to water, and the multiple burden of keeping children in transition sites in compliance with quarantine measures. In Mindanao, most IDP sites monitored by CCHP, particularly, evacuation centers, lack latrines and bathing areas. Without such facilities, women and girls are more exposed to possible GBV.74 May of 2020, CCHP also reported that IDPs still struggle with their access to water. As water supply runs out in the hot summer weather and personal water connection is still not in place, IDP communities had to rely on water rationing from the government. In the cities of Tacloban and Marawi, IDPs had already been reliant on water rationing pre-COVID-19 pandemic. With the rise of confirmed COVID-19 cases, communities need to access potable water in larger volumes, and rationed water by the government is no longer sufficient to meet the needs of affected persons.75 On top of the threat of COVID-19, many women especially in Mindanao, continues to face challenges of displacement. In August, it was noted that most of the displaced persons in South Cotabato were women, children, and elderly.76 Women and LGBTQI Human Rights Defenders In view of the passage of the Anti-Terror Bill, and the numerous petitions questioning its constitutionality before the supreme court, human rights defenders are among those who are particularly vulnerable during the pandemic. The imposition of containment measures has also limited the movement and the right of persons to peaceably assemble and has resulted in the arrests of individuals conducting humanitarian services and those expressing dissent through rallies. Reports have also been reported in the Commission’s regional offices of red tagging of activists, including those from indigenous cultural communities.77 To cite some specific example, a group of volunteers in Marikina who were then conducting feeding program were arrested for quarantine violations. This included teacher Lita, a volunteer teacher in Batibot 74 CHR Report on the COVID-19 Emergency Situation in IDP Areas in Mindanao Regions 27 June 2020 to July 31, 2020 75 CHR-CCHP. Report on the COVID-19 Emergency Situation in IDP Areas in Region VIII and Mindanao Regions. 4-8 May 2020. 76 CHR Report on the COVID-19 Emergency Situation in IDP Areas in Mindanao Regions 27 June 2020 to July 31, 2020. 77 CHR IV, Human Rights Situationer report; See also ‘Cultural Survival. Amid COVID-19 Crisis, Duterte Regime Seeks to Discredit Indigenous Humanitarian Organizers in the Philippines’ 19 May 2020. https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/amid-covid-19-crisis-duterte-regime-seeks-discredit-indigenoushumanitarian-organizers 19