Stephen “Steve” Tauli is a Regional Council Member of the Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA), an independent federation of mostly grassroots Indigenous organizations in the Cordillera Region in the Philippines, and he is a long-time development worker and Indigenous Peoples’ human rights defender who has campaigned against dams, mines, and other forms of development aggression against the Cordillera Peoples. Tauli has been involved in the ongoing opposition against the 49 MW Saltan D and 45 MW Saltan E dams along the Saltan River, a project of JBD Water Power Inc. (JWPI), as well as the proposed Upper Tabuk Hydropower Dam and Karayan Dam. Allegedly because of his work, he has been subject to red-tagging, harassment and surveillance.