The legal harassment of anti-mining residents in Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya continues. Today, September 24, the Municipal Trial Court of Kasibu and the Regional Trial Court of Bayombong issued separate warrants of arrest against Indigenous People anti-mining leaders Donny Dugay and Municipal Councilor Glenn Guingayan in cases involving cyberlibel and grave coercion.
Last August 11, at 10:30 PM, members of local organizations forming the People’s Barricade in Pacquetm, Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya reported the arrival of more than five members of the Philippine National Police, including the chief of the Kasibu Municipal Police Station. This marks the sixth consecutive day of regular patrolling by armed PNP forces around the community barricade.
Today, March 3, marks the 31st anniversary of the Philippine Mining Act of 1995 (RA 7942), and the Center for Environmental Concerns (CEC) reiterates its long-held call for the full repeal of this law, which has since allowed foreign corporations to extract and export Philippine minerals for minimal GDP contributions while leaving local communities and the environment destroyed.
This International Human Rights Day, the Center for Environmental Concerns– Philippines (CEC) joins the urgent call to end the escalating attacks on environmental human rights defenders (EHRDs) across the country. To date, the Philippines remains Asia’s deadliest country for EHRDs [1], a grim reality rooted in natural resource conflicts due to environmental plunder of local elites and international corporations, coupled with state violence against local communities.
Statement of the Center for Environmental Concerns – Philippines on the International Day of the Disappeared Today, the Center for Environmental Concerns (CEC) – Philippines stands in solidarity with the victims, families, friends and colleagues of enforced disappearances this International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. Under the Marcos Jr. administration, within […]
Statement of the Center for Environmental Concerns – Philippines on the denial of the petition for writ of amparo and habeas data of Jonila Castro and Jhed Tamano The recent decision by the Court of Appeals Former Special Eighth Division dated August 2, 2024 to deny the petition for the privilege of the writs of […]
