Apr 243 minOn Earth Day, Global CSOs condemn violent dispersal of IPs mining barricade in the Philippines22 April 2020, Manila - Ottawa – Over two hundred NGOs from the Philippines and across the world have signed a statement condemning violent police action aga...
Apr 157 minSolidarity Statement Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines“My heart bleeds for our brave men and women of Didipio who had to suffer and be arrested for expressing their resistance against mining, a great menace to M...
Jan 273 minNGO sounds alarm over revival of ‘monster’ open-pit mine project in PH27 January 2019, Manila, Philippines – A legal case is breathing new life into the controversial Tampakan Gold-Copper Project (TGCP), the largest open-pit mi...
Dec 10, 20191 minBrewing Tension: A Case Study of a Coffee Plantation in Indigenous LandThe world can’t resist a cup of coffee. From 2014 to 2018, there was an increase in coffee consumption worldwide, and the Philippines is poised to become one...
Dec 3, 20191 minDec 3 Massacre in Lake SebuOne year ago today, 8 T’boli and Manobo community members in Barangay Ned, Lake Sebu, South Cotabato were killed in an alleged military operations against co...
Dec 3, 20192 minStatement of Task Force TAMASCO on the 2nd Anniversary of the TAMASCO 8 massacre in South CotabatoJustice remains elusive two years since the killing of eight members of the T’boli-Manobo indigenous people in Mindanao who are locked in a struggle with a c...
Nov 15, 20192 minIndigenous people file case vs DENR secretary Cimatu at Quezon City RTC15 November 2019, Quezon City, Philippines — The T’boli-Manobo indigenous people has filed a special civil action today at the Regional Trial Court, Quezon C...
Dec 14, 20183 minHow a new mining law will end women’s woes in mining areasAt an event organized by the SOS Yamang Bayan Network in Quezon City today, Senator Risa Hontiveros urged the president to pass a new mining law that will ea...
Dec 5, 20185 minLOST RIVERS, LOST LIVES: 25th Anniversary of the Marinduque MinespillDecember 6, 1993 -- 25 years ago today, Marinduque experienced the worst mining disaster in Philippine history. The Marcopper-buillt Mogpog river dam burst...
Dec 4, 20182 minJustice for slain indigenous leader remains elusive one year onManila, Philippines, 3 December 2018 – It has been a year since indigenous leader Victor Danyan and seven others were killed in South Cotabato, in Mindanao,...
