As we mark the 40th anniversary of the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution, the Center for Environmental Concerns – Philippines (CEC) joins the Filipino people in commemorating a historic victory against the corruption and rights violations during the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos Sr.
The Center for Environmental Concerns-Philippines (CEC) welcomes the temporary suspension of Woggle Corporation’s mining exploration permit dated February 5. This development is a victory made possible by the steadfast resistance and people’s barricade of Novo Vizcayanos in Dupax Del Norte, Nueva Vizcaya, for their lands and rights.
January 27 marked the 7th anniversary of the Manila Bay Rehabilitation Program–a program led by the Duterte administration which greenwashed displacement and reclamation as genuine rehabilitation of the bay. The Center for Environmental Concerns – Philippines (CEC) remains rooted in the people’s demand to put a full halt to projects that oppose the idea of rehabilitation, like reclamation.
The Center for Environmental Concerns (CEC) Philippines expresses its solidarity with the people of Dupax del Norte, Nueva Vizcaya. Our organization stands with them, believing that their action to barricade against large-scale mining is both just and necessary, especially when the justice system fails to protect our environment and rights.
The Center for Environmental Concerns – Philippines strongly condemns the recent aerial bombings, strafing, and intensified militarization carried out by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in Barangay Cabacao, Abra de Ilog, Occidental Mindoro. These attacks, justified under counter-insurgency operations, are in reality repressive tactics used to suppress people’s resistance to large-scale mining,environmental destruction and displacement of Indigenous Peoples.
As we mark the 7th anniversary of the establishment of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), the Center for Environmental Concerns – Philippines (CEC) stands united with fellow Filipinos in calling for the abolishment of this task force and seeking justice for the victims of State-sponsored attacks on environmental human rights defenders.
