Shifting the Power Lines
There is a need for voices from the Global South, especially from the most vulnerable nations, peoples, and areas, to be given greater recognition in the critical COP 26 climate…
MICC PUSHES 100% REINSTATEMENT OF SUSPENDED MINES – INCLUDING ONE THAT DEPLETED AN ENTIRE VILLAGE’S GROUNDWATER
PRESS RELEASEAugust 17, 2021 Environmental activist group Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment (Kalikasan PNE) slammed the recent interagency Mining Industry Coordinating Council (MICC) pronouncement exonerating previously closed or suspended…
Manila Bay Aerotropolis: No Place in Post-Pandemic Philippines
Aerotropolis project location map in Manila Bay. Photo credits to Narod Eco. The House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee has recently approved on second reading the bill granting the…
‘Environmental Ombudsman’ investigation of Manila Bay dolomite dumping sought
PRESS RELEASE 10 September 2020 Environmental activist group Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment (Kalikasan PNE) called for an investigation from the Environmental Team of the Office of the Ombudsman…
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDERS SAY #JUNKTERRORLAW!
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDERS SAY #JUNKTERRORLAW! Calling on environment and climate advocates from the Philippines and around the world to sign our petition to have the Duterte administration, through the Philippine Congress,…
URGENT ALERT FOR ACTION No let-up in attacks against environmental defenders amid militaristic COVID-19 lockdown in Philippines
We, in the Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment (Kalikasan PNE) request your support for the continuing wave of human rights violations directed at Filipino land and environment defenders amid…
URGENT ALERT FOR ACTION Arrests, harassment of environmental defenders amid COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines
We in the Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment (Kalikasan PNE) request your support for recent human rights violations directed at Filipino land and environment defenders in the midst of…
Metro-wide cleanup, disinfection, and public health investment against COVID-19 needed
Ensuring ecological health is a key public health solution for the rapidly spreading COVID-19 pandemic in Metro Manila. A metro-wide cleanup and disinfection program should be one of the priority…
UN Special Rapporteur Boyd met with PH environmentalists, promised to promote safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment in the Philippines
After his report at the 43rd Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment David Boyd met Filipino environmentalists Clemente Bautista…
‘Rigged’ hearing on Vizcaya mining human rights violations assailed
We in environmental activist group Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment (Kalikasan PNE) condemn the recently held public hearing of the House of Representatives Committee on Indigenous Cultural Communities and…