Ms. Alma Sinumlag
Programme Officer, Cordillera Women Education and Action Research Center (Asia-Pacific Civil Society Mechanism)
Ms. Sinumlag is a Kalinga-Igorot activist from the Cordillera, Philippines. She has been working for indigenous peoples rights and women's rights for 12 years. She is serving as the Research and Publications coordinator of the Cordillera Women's Education Action Research Center (CWEARC) since 2012. She is also part of the Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) that exposed the rights violations of Chevron against the indigenous peoples rights to free prior and informed consent (FPIC) and the indigenous peoples rights to self determination in the company's plan to set up a geothermal power plant in the ancestral territory of the Kalinga people. She has also been engaging in several UN mechanisms to expose and draw support for the women human rights defenders (WHRDs) and indigenous peoples human rights defenders (IPHRDs) under attack because of their work towards a just just and sustainable future.