In a follow-through to the successful advocacy mission in the US, eight (8) delegates composed of an IP elder and youth leaders left on September 10, 2019 for a 24-day advocacy mission on the situation of the Indigenous Peoples and the atrocities committed by the CTGs to IPs.
The IP Youth Leaders engaged with the UN organizations, foreign ministries, parliaments, NGOs and the Filipino communities in Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany and France. Three (3) of these countries are members of the powerful Group of Seven (G7). Belgium is the headquarters of the European Union (EU), the political and economic grouping of 28 countries in Europe, while Geneva hosts the Headquarters of the United Nations.
Noting the contributions of IPs especially in environmental and food security discourses, foreign government officials committed to look into the IP reports especially on the utilization of funds from European funding agencies by NGOs linked to CTGs, concerns on killings, torture, disappearances, and other human rights abuses of the CTGs.
THE DELEGATES
Chronology of Engagement:
| Sept 10 | DEPARTURE (Manila International Airport) | |
| Sept 11 | ROME, ITALY | |
| 1. | Sept 12 | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UN-FAO) |
| 2. | Sept 12 | Courtesy call to Ambassador to Italy Domingo P. Nolasco |
| 3. | Sept 12 | Filipino Community Engagement with DDS-Rome |
| 4. | Sept 12 | Filipino Community Briefing at the Philippine Embassy |
| 5. | Sept 13 | Meeting the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) |
| 6. | Sept 14 | Meeting at the Philippine Embassy-ROME with attached Agency Personnel |
| GENEVA, SWITZERLAND | ||
| 7. | Sept 15 | IP Delegation Meeting at the Philippine Permanent Mission |
| 8. | Sept 16 | U.N. Briefing/Dialogue on State Advocacy on IP Rights and CTG Atrocities against IPs in the Philippines |
| 9. | Sept 17 | (LIVE) Press Conference – Geneva Press Club |
| 10. | Sept 17 | Dialogue with Filipino Community in Geneva PH Mission to the UN and Other International Organizations |
| 11. | Sept 18 | 42nd Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) |
| 12. | Sept 19 | Meeting with UN Special Rapporteur Victoria Tauli-Corpuz |
| 13. | Sept 19 | Meeting with the Secretary of UNHRC at PH Mission |
| BRUSSELS, BELGIUM | ||
| 14. | Sept 20 | Joint Meeting with European External Action Service (EEAS) and Representatives of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| 15. | Sept 20 | PUBLIC EVENT: A Conversation with IPs of the Philippines Co-organized with the European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS) |
| 16. | Sept 21 | An Event with Brussels – Filipino Community at the PH Embassy |
| 17. | Sept 23 | Meeting with the European Union Parliament |
| BERLIN, GERMANY | ||
| 18. | Sept 25 | Courtesy Call to the Philippine Ambassador to Berlin, Theresa Dizon – De Vega |
| 19. | Sept 26 | Meeting with Ambassador Therese Dizon – De Vega with Members of the Deutscher Bundestag (GERMAN FEDERAL PARLIAMENT) |
| 20. | Sept 26 | Meeting with the German Federal Foreign Ministry |
| COLOGNE, GERMANY | ||
| 21. | Sept 27 | Meeting with DDS and Filipino Community at Yummy Tummy |
| 22. | Sept 27 | Meeting with Filipino Community at Internationales Caritas Zentrum |
| 23. | Sept 28 | Dialogue with the Filipino Community of Monchengladbech |
| PARIS, FRANCE | ||
| 24. | Sept 30 | Visit to the Assemblee Nationale Rue de l’Universite |
| 25. | Sept 30 | Dialogue with the Filipino Community |
| 26. | Oct 1 | Meeting with Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEFA) Rue de I’de Universit’e |
| 27. | Oct 2 | Meeting with the Institut Français Des Relations Internationales (IFRI) |
| Oct 3 | DEPARTURE (Rome, Italy) | |
| Oct 4 | ARRIVAL (Manila, Philippines) |
Updated by: Alvin Sison – April 20, 2023