2010, three proposals for alternative mining bills have been submitted and they were consolidated by the House Committee on Natural Resources into the Alternative Minerals Management Bill. This bill contains proposals of improvement of the current Act especially in ensuring that the resource extraction follows sustainable standards, that the rights and interest of affected communities are better protected and that the mining operations underlie stricter control.3 Violence against indigenous women 8. The indigenous and rural women are particularly vulnerable to the negative impacts of mining activities in the Philippines. There has been a number of conflicts involving mining companies and the local communities which are directly and indirectly affected by the mining operation. This include the killing of the members of indigenous community, including women, by the security forces, especially those who were considered as opposing the mining activities. 9. The killing of Ms. Juvy Capion (27 years old), a Blaan indigenous woman from Tampakan, Mindanao on 18 October 2012 is an example of violation of women human rights directly related to mining operation. The Tampakan Copper-Gold Project is operated by Sagittarius Mines Inc (SMI), and operates in Tampakan municipality in Mindanao, the Philippines. She was killed together with her two children, Mr Jordan Capion, 13 years old and Mr John Capion, 8 years old, while her daughter Ms Vicky Capion, 4 years old was wounded together with her cousin Ms Ressa Piang, 11 years old escaped unhurt but was traumatized. Ms Capion was the wife of Mr Daguil Capion, Blaan Indigenous leaders who has been opposing the mining operation by SMI in Tampakan. This murder was considered by the Philippines military as an “armed encounter”, but evidence points to it being the murder of unarmed civilians. The alleged perpetrators were members of 27th Infantry Battalion of Philippine Army led by 1Lt. Dante Jimenez the commanding officer of the Bravo Company and under the command of Lt. Colonel Noel Alexis Bravo, Battalion Commander. These officers are currently undergoing trial in a court martial by the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Proposed Question:  What measures does the government take to ensure the protection of indigenous women from the violence against women especially in the contact of natural resources extraction? Indigenous women right to livelihood 10. Mining activities in the Philippines often take place in the rural area and in indigenous people area, where the communities are dependent on the land as the main source of their livelihood. According to report of an indigenous organisation in 2014, there are 281 approved application for large-scale mining operations covering at least 532,356 hectares, with the estimation that 100.000 people belonging to indigenous people from 39 indigenous communities will be displaced. It means that they will lose their right to livelihood. 4 11. Tampakan Copper-Gold Mine project, for example, is a mining project operated by Sagittarius Mines Inc (SMI) in, Tampakan, it is estimated that 5000 people, mostly Blaan indigenous peoples, will have to be re-settled as a consequence of the mining. The indigenous women will be directly and indirectly affected. As the holders of the culture and the role to preserve the livelihood, the displacement of the indigenous peoples will uproot the indigenous women from their ancestral environment. Sources of income of the indigenous women are tied to land 3 Idem p. 18 4 Estimation according to the KAMP, a national federtion of indigneous peoples’ organisation in the Philippines, as cited in The Indigenous World 2015, p. 257, published by International Work Group for Indigenous Peoples. 3