Our warmest salute to all the heroines, heroes and martyrs of the world who offered their lives in the name of genuine and sustainable development, equality and environmental defense.

Kinokondena ng Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center-Kasama sa Kalikasan/Friends of the Earth Philippines (LRC-KsK/FoE Phils) ang malisyosong pagbansag ni Retired Police Director Rodolfo “Boogie” Mendoza kay Jean Marie Ferraris bilang myembro ng Komite Sentral ng Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas sa harap ng mga mamahayag sa isinagawang forum ng Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (FOCAP) kamakailan lang.

Press Statement

Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center (LRC-KsK)– Luzon

Scrap the National Mining Policy Now!

Respect LGU Autonomy!

Contrary to the promises of progress and development, communities have reaped predominantly

negative social economic and environmental impacts from mining operations. The mining industry

has missed miserable on its targets and promises – investments, revenues, jobs and environmental

responsibilities. In fact it has caused numerous violations on human rights, indigenous peoples’

rights, undermined local autonomy, and worse, aggravated environmental and ecological degradation.

Press Release

Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center

September 14, 2010

Justice to all victims of human rights violations and anti-mining martyrs!

Resisting communities, advocates and activists troop the first day of the Mining Conference 2010 organized by the Chamber of Mines in Manila Hotel, Manila today to demand justice to all human rights violations and mining-related extra-judicial killings. 

Aside from the negative environmental and social impacts that communities have to bear due to mining, a list of martyrs in the struggle against mining is growing fast.

According to Judy Pasimio, Executive Director of LRC-KsK, “When we held an action last year during the Mining Conference 2009 in front of Sofitel Hotel in Manila, we were still with our colleague Gensun Agustin, who came from Cagayan. Today, he is no longer with us as he was brutally killed early this year.”