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RIGHTS VIOLATION SPATE IN MINDANAO TARGET OPPONENTS OF BIG MINES, PLANTATIONS.

By KPNE Secretariat February 14, 2019Articles

A spate of aerial bombings, food blockades, illegal arrests and killings of indigenous Lumad and farmers are zeroed in on critics and opponents of large-scale mines and plantations across the…

MORATORIUM ON RECLAMATION SOUGHT IN MANILA BAY REHAB

By KPNE Secretariat January 18, 2019Articles

“A genuine rehab program for Manila Bay should immediately impose a moratorium on reclamation projects that threaten ecosystem destruction, urban sprawl pollution, and heightened disaster risks,” said Leon Dulce, national…

UN complaint vs Duterte filed by environmental defenders

By KPNE Secretariat December 8, 2018Articles

PRESS RELEASE 8 December 2018 The Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment and indigenous peoples from an anti-mining group based in Nueva Vizcaya filed a complaint against the Duterte government…

Environmental Defenders Conference unite against Martial Law re-extension in Mindanao

By KPNE Secretariat December 7, 2018Articles

PRESS STATEMENT 7 December 2018 The recently-concluded First National Environmental Defenders’ Conference, a historic gathering of around 100 environmental defenders from across the country, raised its collective opposition to the…

First national environment defenders confab seeks to declare ‘deadly’ landscapes as special protected areas

By KPNE Secretariat December 5, 2018Articles

PRESS RELEASE 5 December 2018 Around 100 environmental defenders from various ecologically-sensitive areas across the country facing reprisals and other human rights violations are pushing to have their respective landscapes…

Green groups urge DENR to deny clearance to Manila Bay reclamation projects

By KPNE Secretariat November 21, 2018Articles

‘Bay-wide’ complaint filed before environment regulator on World Fisheries Day PRESS RELEASE 21 November 2018 Fisherfolk, church workers, and environmental activists from Bulacan to Cavite converged at the Department of…

Green groups call for diplomatic protest, waste import ban amid South Korea trash dump

By KPNE Secretariat November 19, 2018Articles

PRESS RELEASE 19 November 2018 Environmental groups led by Kalikasan-People’s Network for the Environment (Kalikasan-PNE) and BAN Toxics have added their voices to the growing clamor to return 51,000 tons…

Rehabilitation, not reclamation, needed to address food problems

By KPNE Secretariat October 16, 2018Articles

PRESS RELEASE 16 October 2018 The Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment joined fisherfolk who held a picket-dialogue at the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) office on World…

PH reentry into UN Human Rights Council should lead to full-blown investigation, greens say

By KPNE Secretariat October 15, 2018Articles

PRESS RELEASE 15 October 2018 The Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment called on the Philippine government not to use its recent election into the United Nations’ Human Rights Council…

WOMAN WHO HIT CEBU QUARRY DISASTER IN FRONT OF DUTERTE NOW IN HIDING

By KPNE Secretariat September 27, 2018Articles

PRESS RELEASE 27 September 2018 The middle-aged woman who recently decried the quarrying operations as the root cause of the landslide disaster* in front of President Rodrigo Duterte—right after he…