Urgent HR alert

Urgent HR alert

Ms. Anne Tauli, 70 years old and president of the Batil-ang Peypeyen Clan in Besao, Mountain Province, has been picked up by a military helicopter just now in Kin-iway, Besao. Two women elders opted to accompany her in the helicopter as the situation is still not yet clear.

Annie is the older sister of Vicky Tauli-Corpuz, the former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the RIghts of Indigenous Peoples. Vicky is currently coordinating with the military as to where Annie will be brought.

Annie is one of the 10 children of Padi Alejandro Tauli and Cirena Ambucay of Besao. She graduated elementary from Easter School in Baguio City and was among the first batch of graduates from the Philippine Science High School in 1969. She graduated BS Physics from UP Diliman and was a lecturer at UP Baguio.

She was a teacher in Brent School up to 1980. She was the coordinator of the Cordillera Studies Program of the Cordillera Schools Group based in Easter School up to 1984. She has done independent research and has written several papers on Cordillera history and issues. She was among the 300 plus participants in the Cordillera People’s Congress which founded the Cordillera People’s Alliance in 1984.

As a senior citizen, Annie has long since retired and gone home to Besao, where she is the president of the Batil-ang Peypeyen Clan. She has led in the organization of clan reunions for several years. Community members will attest that she has been very involved in local activities such as the cooperative, Parents-Teachers Association and the like. Most recently, she implemented the TUKLAS project on the documentation of the Batangan system of pine forest management.

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