Greenleft
Ron Guy
Spokesperson for the Australian National Campaign on Mining in the Philippines (ANCoMP) Andrew Morrison believes that Australian-Canadian mining company OceanaGold is misleading the ...
... policy will hasten not our recovery, but our environment’s destruction. Hence, it is one that the Filipino citizenry must forcefully reject, before it is too late.
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Efenita Taqueban is an anthropologist, ...
... catastrophe that would fuel violations of socio-economic rights,” said Hicap.
Since President Duterte came into office, at least 124 Filipino environment defenders were subjected to red-tagging and criminalization, ...
... to attendees of the April 19 virtual launch of the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines – Toronto chapter (ICHRP-Toronto).
According to Claver, the Filipino mining company Lepanto ...
... taxes and fees, royalty fees, and increase in export value, as well as employment opportunities for thousands of Filipinos," the chamber said.
In the executive order, Duterte said additional rules and ...
... of dirty coal to boost economic activity.
Yet this promise of sacrificing the environment to alleviate the economy does not trickle down to us Filipinos. IBON Foundation points out that the government ...
URGENT ALERT FOR ACTION
April 17, 2020
We in the Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment (Kalikasan PNE) request your support for recent human rights violations directed at Filipino land ...
... is negligible compared to the profit margin for these companies. The mining sector in the Philippines employed 212,000 Filipinos in 2018, and in 2017, paid $529.6 million in national and local taxes, fees, ...
... pollution of rivers, unjust conditions of workers, illegal arrests, and red-tagging.
The group also furthered that the entire Filipino people’s sovereign rights to their natural resources have been undermined ...
... the 80s, brought Governor Carlos Padilla from Nueva Vizcaya in the Philippines to testify before a legislative committee on the impacts of OceanaGold’s Didipio Mine there. Two Filipino community members ...
... Mining
Midwest Coalition Responsible Investment
MOFGA-El Salvador Sistering Committee
National Alliance for Filipino Concerns, NAFCON
National Lawyers Guild International Committee
National Ecumenical ...
Since OceanaGold acquired Pacific Rim in 2013, members of the the Maritime Union of Australia, along Salvadorean and Filipino residents in Melbourne, have held monthly solidarity actions to demand that ...