Victoria Tauli-Corpuz is a terrorist at least, according to the government of the Philippines. But Tauli-Corpuz, a member of the Kankanaey people indigenous to the northern Philippines, is also the special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples to the United Nations.

Her story echoes hundreds of others of indigenous rights activists who are currently criminalized for their activism.

In a new report for the U.N. Human Rights Council, Tauli-Corpuz outlines how corporations and governments employ smear campaigns, legislation and even physical violence to stifle indigenous activists trying to protect their land and way of life.

Ive been alerted to hundreds of criminalization cases from nearly every corner of the world, Tauli-Corpuz said. The rapid expansion of development projects on indigenous lands without their consent is driving a global crisis.