‘Tacloban Five’ imprisoned for still demanding justice six years after Typhoon Yolanda
Six years after Super Typhoon Yolanda, one of the world’s deadliest typhoons in history, reduced the Eastern Visayas region to rubble, the public seems to have already forgotten the deaths…
CLIMATE STRIKE ORGANIZERS RAISE ALARM OVER THREAT OF OFFICE RAID
Organizing groups of one of the main Global Climate Strike actions in the Philippines have raised alarm over verified information they received of an impending raid into their headquarters in…
NOTICE OF CLIMATE STRIKE’ ISSUED TO DUTERTE GOVERNMENT
Public urged to stand with environmental defenders in the face of climate emergency Youth activists and environmental advocates issued a symbolic ‘notice of strike’ today addressed to the administration of…
LINKS OF MINING, MILITARY TO ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDER KILLINGS EXPOSED IN CHR INQUIRY
Environmental activist group Kalikasan People's Network for the Environment (Kalikasan PNE) revealed how large-scale mining projects and military operations in natural resource-rich areas were the biggest factors driving the extrajudicial…
SAVE NUEVA VIZCAYA MOVEMENT LAUNCHED, SEEKS HOUSE PROBE INTO OCEANAGOLD MINE
Environmental activists, church leaders, lawyers, economists, scientists, politicians, and indigenous leaders gathered today at the Church of the Risen Lord in the University of the Philippines to launch the Save…
BULACAN FISHERFOLK WANT AEROTROPOLIS RECLAMATION ENVIRONMENT CLEARANCE REVOKED
With their homes and fishing grounds on the line, fisherfolks from the town of Bulakan trooped to the Central Luzon regional office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources…
SUPPORT THE PEOPLE’S BARRICADE, STOP OCEANAGOLD PLUNDER!
The International League of People’s Struggle (ILPS) joins the Filipino people and the global community in their campaign to stop the destructive operations of the transnational mining company OceanaGold Corporation…
PH DECLARED DEADLIEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDERS
International watchdog Global Witness has dubbed the Philippines as the deadliest country in the world for land and environmental defenders. In its latest annual report released today, the death toll…