A/HRC/39/37 concerns about the recent terrorism accusations levelled against the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples. The Expert Mechanism also expressed its support for Joan Carling, a former member of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, and Jose Molintas, a former member of the Expert Mechanism, who are the targets of similar accusations. 44. In the same vein, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination adopted its decision 1 (95) on the Philippines under its early warning and urgent action procedures, expressing concern about claims that the list of more than 600 individuals alleged to be affiliated with terrorist organizations, included in the court petition of February 2018 filed by the Philippines State Prosecutor, is aimed at intimidating “indigenous peoples defending their lands, and is part of a wider campaign by the State party to narrow the democratic space and to target various groups of persons including indigenous peoples, human rights defenders, and persons expressing dissenting opinions”.17 45. The OHCHR office in Colombia intervened rapidly with relevant authorities regarding threats, kidnappings and the risk of assassination facing indigenous leaders in the regions of Catatumbo, Putumayo, Chocó, Nariño, Cauca and Valle del Cauca. 46. The country office acknowledged the efforts made by the National Protection Unit of the Ministry of the Interior to protect human rights defenders, and supported the strengthening of collective protection measures in rural areas, such as using indigenous guards as a means of individual and territorial protection. 47. In November 2017, the OHCHR office in Guatemala organized a workshop on the protection of indigenous women human rights defenders, which focused on issues of invisibility and of the normalization of violence. The office also documented cases of criminalization of indigenous human rights defenders working on land rights and followed up on cases with State authorities. 48. The country office monitored emblematic cases to ensure greater transparency and due process, and supported the work of the Office of the Attorney-General, maintaining close contact with a vast network of indigenous human rights defenders, visiting the communities concerned and meeting with local authorities. Protection of human rights defenders was further enhanced by the development of a public policy on this matter by the Presidential Commission for Coordinating Executive Policy in the field of human rights, with technical support from OHCHR. 49. The OHCHR office in Honduras continued to monitor the case of the killing of the indigenous Lenca environmental defender Berta Cáceres in March 2016, allegedly linked to her opposition to the Agua Zarca dam, run by the Desarrollos Energéticos hydroelectric company in Honduras. 50. The Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples has, together with other special procedures, sent a string of communications on the case to the Government and to financial investors supporting the dam project, and has highlighted the case in several of her reports and speeches to the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly. Several investors, including the Netherlands Development Finance Company, the Central American Bank for Economic Integration and Finnfund, subsequently suspended funding for the dam project. 51. Unprecedented prevention measures were taken by Mexican authorities, as a result of a press release calling for an impartial and effective investigation, issued by the OHCHR office in Mexico, after it had documented cases of violence against indigenous human rights defenders in several Mexican states, including Oaxaca, the State of Mexico, Guerrero and Chihuahua. In January 2018, the office carried out two field missions to the State of Guerrero pursuant to reports of three extrajudicial killings of indigenous human rights defenders, allegedly by the state police. 17 8 See http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CERD/Shared%20Documents/PHL/INT_CERD_EWU_PHL _8679_E.pdf.